Red Dust
- ISBN-10
- 0393323994
- ISBN-13
- 9780393323993
- Series
- Red Dust
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-02
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Gillian Slovo
Description
While successful prosecutor Sarah Barcant returns home to a rural town in South Africa at the request of her mentor and inspiration to help him with one last case, former deputy Dirk Hendricks is on the way to meet Alex Mpondo, a prisoner he had tortured, and soon, the lives of these three people will be connected by the Truth Commission, forcing them to revisit their painful pasts, in a gripping novel of the ramifications of truth and the intimacy of enemies. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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