Two offbeat characters meet to uncover their lost past and their need for each other in this dreamy and poetic story about memory, love, and loss. In the backdrop of the mysterious and evocative Cederberg mountains, this tale meticulously weaves together a young man's attempt to discover his and his brother's enigmatic wilderness origins and an orphan girl's efforts to comprehend the trauma of her occult past. As they plumb the depths of their personal histories, the people and places in their lives intertwine, recreating the complex strata of modern South African culture and the joys and tragedies of its history.

Rock Alphabet

Literature & Fiction

Rose-Innes, Henrietta

British & Irish

Kwela Books

Nineveh

Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in 'the unlovely and unloved'. Yet in contrast to her father, she is not in the business of pest extermination, but pest relocation.Katya's unconventional approach brings her to the attention of a property developer whose luxury estate on the fringes of Cape Town, Nineveh, remains uninhabited thanks to an infestation of mysterious insects. As Katya is drawn ever deeper into the chaotic urban wilderness of Nineveh, she must confront unwelcome intrusions from her own past.A masterful novel exploring the tensions between the natural and man-made worlds; the impossibility of imposing order on an organic landscape; and the beautiful chaos of nature.

Genre Fiction

Aardvark Bureau

Katya Grubbs is Cape Town’s only ethical pest removal specialist. She expertly wrangles every manner of wild critter, creature or beast with the help of her unwitting nephew, Toby. When she is hired to remove the exotic beetles that have overrun Nineveh, a new luxury housing development on the coast, Katya finds that bugs aren’t the only unwelcome creatures hiding in the new (but inhabited) apartments. As she investigates further, it becomes clear that Nineveh is fast becoming an environmental, not to mention architectural, blunder. With marshlands encroaching on its borders, and the nearby seaside more menace than attraction, Katya becomes immersed in the world of Nineveh’s few residentsthe mysterious caretakers and scavenger crews that survive in its shadow. It is only when her estranged fathera professional exterminator fallen on hard timesreappears in her life, that Nineveh’s deeper secrets are exposed.

Nineveh: A Novel

Literary

The Unnamed Press

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