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Red Dust

Gillian Slovo

2000340 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2000
first published
  • 2000Virago Press · 340 pages · ENGISBN 9781860498244
  • 2002W.W. Norton · 340 pages · ENGISBN 9780393041484
  • 2003W. W. Norton & Company · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780393323993
  • 2004Virago Press Ltd · 352 pagesISBN 9781844081585

"In a small, dusty, South African town, three people, returning after many years away, are about to meet their past. Successful prosecutor Sarah Barcant leaves New York to help Ben, her mentor and inspiration, with one last case. Dirk Hendricks is being driven, handcuffed, to the police station in Smitsrivier where he was previously a deputy, there to meet his former prisoner, the man he tortured, Alex Mpondo.". "These three are drawn by the Truth Commission like a magnet back into their pasts, setting the stage for the moment of collision. But the real truth will be felt in the wings: in the fatal strain in a marriage, in the violated memory of a sweet son, and in a victim's understanding of his own complicity."--BOOK JACKET.

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