Up Against the Night
A Fiction, Cultural, Africa book. Afrikander cattle. Justin Cartwright, Up Against the Night //
Frank McAllister has long since dropped "Retief" as his middle name, but the legacy of his family's history proves harder to shake. His ancestor Piet Retief, leader of the South African Great Trek, was killed by Zulu king Dingane in the 1838 massacre, along with a hundred men, women, and children. Afrikaner legend paints Retief as a homegrown Moses, bringing his people to the Promised Land. But Frank believes something rotten lies at the core of this family myth.Frank spends his days in his London home with his new partner and her son and the products of his wealth. But the return of his daughter, Lucinda, from rehab in California brings him intense guilt: having sided with him during his divorce from her mother, she crumbled under the weight of the bitter separation. Lucinda has brought home with her a mysterious boy, and they will join the family trip to Frank's beach house in South Africa--not far from the site of the 1838 massacre. In the lulls of their idyllic days, Frank unravels...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 241 pages
- ISBN: 9781408858226 / 0
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Afrikander cattle. Justin Cartwright, Up Against the Night //
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Not really impressed. Set in London & South Africa . Frank McAllister , whose ancestor was killed by the Zulu king, returns to S Africa on holiday where his home is attacked. Delving into the life both past and present of Frank McAllister, a wealthy man with a broken family and violent heritage, Up Against the Night takes readers on a journey of healing and change as a family rebuilds itself and comes to terms with its past. Based mostly in the protagonists beloved homeland of South Africa, readers get a... Not a good offering.. I enjoyed being 'back' in South Africa, but the geographical errors annoyed me.
