Ebook {Epub PDF} The Elusive Moth by Ingrid Winterbach

The Elusive Moth. by Ingrid Winterbach. Translated from the Afrikaans by Iris Gouws and the author. Open Letter Books (), pages. In Ingrid Winterbach’s The Elusive Moth, one small South African town becomes the scene of a longstanding and complex legacy of racial conflict. Tension drips from every word as Winterbach paints a picture of injustice and intrigue as observed by an outsider . Tormented by memories of her family and plagued by erotic dreams, Karolina spends her nights playing snooker, drinking whisky, and dancing herself into a state of euphoria with the mysterious. Originally published in Afrikaans in , The Elusive Moth won Ingrid Winterbach the prestigious M-Net Book Prize and the Old Mutual Literary Prize. Finally available to American readers, this novel reinforces Winterbach’s reputation as one of South Africa's greatest contemporary writers.

The Elusive Moth. Karolina Ferreira, an entomologist, goes to a small Free State town to do research on the survival strategies of a rare moth species. The elusive moth is the story of a woman amongst men. Karolina stays in the local hotel where she meets up with some fascinating - mostly male - characters - the enigmatic lawyer, Pol Habermaut. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Elusive Moth at www.doorway.ru Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. and The Book of Happenstance, this novel by Ingrid Winterbach deals with clear themes of life, love, and death, analyzed on a grand scale and shown in an equally grand evolutionary context. Though. Ingrid Winterbach (* 14 Februarie , Johannesburg-) is 'n Afrikaanse skrywer en kunstenaar, wat ook onder die skuilnaam Lettie Viljoen boeke publiseer. Sy verower talle pryse vir haar skryfwerk, insluitende die Hertzogprys, die M-Net-prys, die W.A. Hofmeyr-prys en die Universiteit van Johannesburg-prys.

It isn’t about moths, but about a young woman who studies them (her sister, tellingly enough, studies stones), as her research brings her to an isolated South African community where she seems to attract the interest of every man in town (like moths to a flame?) and generates a variety of sexual tensions. The Elusive Moth. by Ingrid Winterbach. Translated from the Afrikaans by Iris Gouws and the author. Open Letter Books (), pages. In Ingrid Winterbach’s The Elusive Moth, one small South African town becomes the scene of a longstanding and complex legacy of racial conflict. Tension drips from every word as Winterbach paints a picture of injustice and intrigue as observed by an outsider and bystander. "The Elusive Moth," written in Afrikaans by Ingrid Winterbach, is a small, dusty story about an entomologist, Karolina, whom goes out during the day to do research and by night drinking, dancing, playing snooker, and inadvertently watching the politics of the town.