Devils Chimney
Interesting story, about a woman taking over a farm for her husband in Africa,...
In Anne Landsman's complex debut novel , The Devil's Chimney, middle-aged Connie Lambrecht lives a life of quiet desperation in a rural South African outpost called Oudtshoorn, where she runs a dog kennel, quietly suffers the abuse of her weak-willed husband Jack, and drinks to excess. Faced with such unremitting misery, it's no wonder that Connie becomes obsessed with two stories from the past: first, the disappearance of a colored servant girl in the Cango Caves, and second, an upper-class Englishwoman's doomed attempt to run an ostrich farm nearby. As Connie attempts to reconstruct these narratives, they intertwine with her own in an increasingly feverish--and sometimes confusing--way. Landsman writes with dreamlike intensity, and her novel...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9781862071766 / 1862071764
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Good read. The story takes place on an farm in So Africa during a short boom when Ostrich feathers were the rage in fashion. Passionate, sensual and kept my interest. Too much alcohol, too much misunderstandings too much deception. Interesting way of writing, an South African novel setting sort of new to me.In the shadows of the Cango Caves in rural South Africa lives Connie Lambrecht, dazed by alcohol and devastating memories. A "poor white," she is haunted by the disappearance of a young "colored"... Interesting story, about a woman taking over a farm for her husband in Africa, but went off into the metaphysical deep end near the end of the story, which I didn't particularly enjoy. I was annoyed by the use of Afrikaaner throughout the book; I had to flip to the glossary in the back, and I don't feel the sprinkling of words really...
