Devil's Valley

Devil's Valley

by Andre Brink (Author)

Synopsis

When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for the truth first hinted at by a young student in Cape Town who was mysteriously killed. Lochner meets Lukas Death's clan, where righteousness prevails by day and depravity by night, where punishment for misdemeanors is summary, yet brutal murderers walk unscathed. Nothing in Devil's Valley is as it seems: the supernatural is an ingredient of every day, the living and the dead are never quite separate, the grotesque coexists with the banal.

Vibrant and darkly humorous, Devil's Valley is splendid entertainment from a master storyteller.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: First
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Published: 06 Aug 1998

ISBN 10: 0436204614
ISBN 13: 9780436204616

Media Reviews
A disquieting novel from South Africa rich in myth, magic and horror. -The Baltimore Sun
Author Bio
Andr Brink was born in Vrede, Free State, South Africa, in 1935. He is a three-time recipient of South Africa's CNA Award, and he has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize. He is a professor of English at the University of Cape Town.