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Red Dust

by Gillian Slovo

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"Written with the pace of a thriller"--Times Literary Supplement. Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career in New York to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. Dirk Hendricks, a former police deputy, is being taken in handcuffs to the station where he once worked. There he will confront Alex Mpondo, the man he had tortured, who is now an MP.

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"Perhaps the most important piece of fiction yet to emerge from the new South Africa."--San Francisco Chronicle

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"Written with the Pace of a thriller" (Times Literary Supplement), Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career in New York to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. Dirk Hendricks, a former police deputy, is being taken in handcuffs to the station where he once worked. There he will confront Alex Mpondo, the man he had tortured, who is now an MP.

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Gillian Slovo, author of the novel Red Dust, now a feature film, and co-author of the play Guantánamo, as well as a memoir and nine other novels, lives in London.

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Theresa, November 14, 2006 (view all comments by Theresa)
Red Dust pulls you into an intense drama of intimacy between the jailer and the jailed. Set in South Africa after the downfall of apartheid, it gives a look at the aftereffects of a vicious reign of terror. Blacks and whites are presented with equal strengths and weaknesses. Slovo's tale pulls you through courtroom drama to the bittersweet ending.
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ISBN:
9780393323993
Author:
Slovo, Gillian
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
General
Subject:
Women lawyers
Subject:
South Africa
Subject:
Legal stories
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Publication Date:
20030231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.40x6.50x.86 in. .66 lbs.

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"Synopsis" by , "Perhaps the most important piece of fiction yet to emerge from the new South Africa."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Synopsis" by , "Written with the Pace of a thriller" (Times Literary Supplement), Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career in New York to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. Dirk Hendricks, a former police deputy, is being taken in handcuffs to the station where he once worked. There he will confront Alex Mpondo, the man he had tortured, who is now an MP.
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