The novel opens at sunset on an isolated sheep farm in the South African veld, where a young man named Paul watches the flock drift out towards the sparse pastures. The life of the farm, its family and its neighbours turns on the question that governed everything in the country, the line between white and Black. Gibbon, who knew South Africa as a journalist, dedicated the book to Joseph and Jessie Conrad.
A serious, atmospheric novel of race in South Africa from 1911, written within that era’s racial assumptions. Download the free EPUB.