Landskap met diere | Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies

Welma Odendaal

One reader described Welma Odendaal’s voice as “something vital and at the same time lingeringly sad, something like good jazz”. In these short stories a collection of landscapes appears in which human experience is portrayed within the larger movement of time passing. Animals often disturb the seeming order. A leguan hides beneath a girl’s bed. Bush pigs disturb fences between neighbours. A train passes a chained circus elephant. Stories rich in atmosphere and suggestion.