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Overview<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Zoe Du Plessis\u2019s story unfolds against the backdrop of 1996 South Africa, caught in the turmoil of the transition from the Apartheid regime to the first democratically elected black government. A paleoanthropologist at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, Zoe\u2019s world collapses when her lover and colleague, Dario Oldani, is killed during a fatal carjacking.<\/p>\n Clinging to her late companion\u2019s memory, she sets off to the merciless Kalahari Desert to continue his fieldwork.\u00a0It\u2019s the beginning of an inner journey during which Zoe comes to terms with\u00a0her sense of guilt as a privileged white Afrikaner while also confronting a secret that has hung over her family for generations. During a brief visit back home,\u00a0Zoe meets an unlikely lover in Kurt, a legendary South African writer with a troubled past.<\/p>\n The conclusion spirals the reader into a new perspective, where atonement seems to be inextricably linked to an act of creative imagination.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/a>\u00a9 All rights reserved<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview Zoe Du Plessis\u2019s story unfolds against the backdrop of 1996 South Africa, caught in the turmoil of the transition from the Apartheid regime to the first democratically elected black government. A paleoanthropologist at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, Zoe\u2019s world … Continue reading \n