Op ’n plaas in Afrika | Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies

Helena Gunter

Eugène Marais Prize (2008)

Gripping and readable stories from an important new author. The main characters are mostly women and the focus is often on sexuality, but the stories also sometimes throw an uncomfortably sharp light on our society, revealing the hypocrisies of people and the tensions in relationships. The reader is often aware of a sense of menace underlying the seeming idyll of life on an African farm.

Of one of the moving stories in the book a reader said: “Without any melodrama or melancholy the author succeeds in opening up in her writing the human drama concealed by a previous generation and a previous regime.”