The Burning Land

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Queen of Halloween dresses up as a PEACOCK with 10-person entourage while her husband rolls up as an EGG. The back stories of certain characters take up many pages while others only get a few brush strokes, sometimes much too late in the narrative. I loved the characters of this book, from the more important personages like Anton ('Whether you are being fucked by a black bastard or a white bastard is irrelevant—you are still being fucked. Uneven and marred by anachronisms, this is nevertheless a promising debut – gothic, claustrophobic and wonderfully dark.

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South Africa is about to explode with violence, land is being sold off to foreign investors and corruption is rife within the government. And yes, it is something of a murder mystery in that the death occurs under mysterious circumstances and the culprit isn’t disclosed until the very end, but it mainly serves to highlight the social, political and economic divides than to attract a genre audience. The Africa portrayed in here is scary and I can't even imagine how painful it is for people who are stuck right in the middle of war and its violence.The place is grim, the inhabitants sullen, the authorities keen to blame a party of Travellers, and the frustrated Bexley soon falls into a fever, suffering appalling hallucinations. Following the murder of the son of a prominent black South African businessman, Lindi’s boss asks her to visit South Africa to contact a group known as The Land Collective, who are being linked to the murder. I liked the mood of the author that came out in the right moments to give more life to the dialogues and to make them more natural and easygoing.

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I enjoy reading internationally and this book certainly provided an interesting armchair trip to South Africa. is a political thriller that contrasts the perception of a post-apartheid “rainbow nation” of equal opportunities with the corrupt and often violent reality, in which the gap between rich and poor grows wider by the day. He's won numerous awards, including The Royal Television Society and Amnesty International among others. Alagiah paints a multilayered complex picture of SA, the varied viewpoints of some its people, a government mired in corruption, with ministers looking to line their own pockets, such as Jake Willemse in the story. Meanwhile, Harriet, a blackout drinker with no real friends, obsesses over Lexie, whose life she believes to be perfect, thanks to Lexie’s carefully curated online persona.

Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD! After the driver makes an escape, Lindi is nearly raped by a corrupt policeman at a roadblock but bribes him to let her back on the bus. Poor, struggling migrant workers, mainly from Mozambique, are working long hours on the farms for very little pay.