Makapans Caves and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

BOSMAN, Herman Charles

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A Sip of Jerepigo

Human & Rousseau

Bosman at his best: a choice of stories and sketches

<p>Here is Bosman’s cool analysis of maleness and sadism down Voortrekker Street in the South African dorps of old, in the days of General Smuts’ collapsing Union. Here is the seamy underside of boarding-house and school common room, exposed with masterly psychological sharpness, the erotic drives laid bare as they had never been so explicitly before. Bosman’s tale of a triangular passion leading to brutal murder reads just as intriguingly today as when its hot Chapter Six, thought to be pornographic, shocked its first readers.\nThis text of Jacaranda in the night, complete and unabridged, is edited from the original printing, with an introduction placing it within the post-war Johannesburg literary school of hard realism which it served to shape.</p>

Jacaranda in the night

Bosman's Johannesburg

Cold Stone Jug

Idle talk: Voorkamer stories (I) (The anniversary edition of Herman Charles Bosman)

Contemporary

GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

The complete Oom Schalk Lourens stories

The Complete Oom Schalk Lourens Stories

Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd

<p>These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit and clear- sighted judgment. Spun by the plainclothes local visionary and storyteller Oom Shalk Lourens, these moving and satirical glimpses of lethargic herdsmen, ambitious concertina players, legendary leopards and mambas, and love-struck dreamers lay bare immense emotions, contradictions, and mysteries within the smallest movements and unadorned talk of the Groot Marico District. Leading oral tradition by the hand into a territory all his own, Bosman maps a world at once lucid and layered, distant yet powerfully familiar.</p>

Mafeking Road

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Archipelago

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