One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a...
“It is impossible to stop our ears against the excruciating power of what Breytenbach has to say.”—Nadine Gordimer
“Obviously the greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. . No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and no...