This Life

This beautifully written novel, by one of South Africa''s most celebrated writers, has an almost hypnotic power that draws the reader into one woman''s life. As a post-apartheid novel, This Life considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one family. In an elegiac narrator''s tone, there is also a sense of compulsion in the narrator''s attempts to understand the past and achieve reconciliation in the present. This Life is a powerful story partly of suffering and partly of reflection.