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‘n Splinternuwe historiese roman van Human & Rousseau beloof om lesers te betower met sy prentjiemooi voorblad en hulle mee te sleur na die Overberge van die vroe\u00eb agtienhonderds. Twyfelbos, deur die fyn stilis en puik navorser Fran\u00e7ois Loots, is van Vrydag 30\u2009Mei af by boekwinkels.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Twyfelbos
Twyfelbos is \u2019n meesleurende geskiedkundige roman wat afspeel in die Overberge in die vroe\u00eb agtienhonderds. Puik nagevors en geskryf\ndeur \u2019n fyn stilis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dis 1829 in die Kaapkolonie. Sophia Truter is met die regter Johannes Truter getroud. Maar dis Engelse tye en hy word nou as Sir John aangespreek. Sophia het ‘n afkeer aan die Kaap se vertoonsug en n\u00e1 die dood van haar jongste seun besluit sy om weer te gaan boer. Di\u00e9 keer begin sy klein \u2013 op ‘n lappie grond, Overberg, anderkant die Kleinrivier \u2013 sonder slawe en voormanne. Kort n\u00e1 haar aankoms daag Mandel op, ‘n vryloper wat doer ver by Kicherer se sendingstasie Sakrivier gedoop is. By jong vroue soos Sterretjie, wat naby Gansgat tent opgeslaan het, kry Sophia malgasvere en ghwano vir haar groenteakkers. Algaande vind Sophia haar voete en ‘n boervrou van oorkant die Akkedisberg kom ook inloer. Maar dan word iemand op die bokpad anderkant die berg vermoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan Tesselaar, die nuwe veldkornet, moet die skuldige opspoor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fran\u00e7ois
Fran\u00e7ois Loots se nuutste boek, ‘n historiese roman, is Vrydag 30 Mei op boekrakke beskikbaar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Loots is in Prieska gebore en het in die Karoo grootgeword. Hy het al in China en Brasili\u00eb gewoon, maar dit was op die Siberiese platteland waar hy die eerste keer met ” ‘n ander soort moraliteit” te doen gekry het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ek moes my Suid-Afrikaanse stel waardes by die huis los, want in Rusland is ‘n leuen nie noodwendig ‘n slegte ding nie,”<\/p>Fran\u00e7ois Loots<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Waar hy “drie dae met die trein van Moskou af by die laaste groot stop voor Kazakstan” Duits en Engels by ‘n taalinstituut onderrig het, was Loots se lewe soos ‘n draaiboek: “Jy klim in ‘n karakter wanneer jy by die deur uitstap en wanneer jy vanaand by die huis kom, is jy weer jouself,” s\u00ea hy. “Dis soos die outydse Wilde Weste; jy kan nie alleen rondloop nie en jy moet heeltyd oor jou skouer kyk.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loots s\u00ea die Russe “volg nie Westerse re\u00ebls nie” en hierdie “fantastiese vryheid”; die glibberige grens tussen verbeelding en realiteit, het hom gehelp fiksie skryf.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tog s\u00ea hy oor Sophia Truter en Twyfelbos: “In Rusland sou ek in die tronk beland het vir hierdie roman\u2009…”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\uf06e’n Bekendstelling word Dinsdag 3 Junie by Strand-biblioteek gehou en Jeremy Vearey sal die gesprek lei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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