The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman, Volumes 1-2

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First Edition, Jonathan Ball, 1981, Larger-Format Paperbacks. In illustrated slipcase cover – 1300 pages of pure Africana.

In this unprecedented monument to his genius are gathered together the life-works of South Africa’s best-loved author, Herman Charles Bosman. Includes all the stories, essays, chronicles, sketches, poems and novels. In-depth foreword by Lionel Abrahams.

Volume One: Mafeking Road. Unto dust. Jacaranda in the night. Willemsdorp. The Earth is waiting.
Volume Two: Cold stone jug. A Bekkersdal marathon. Jurie Steyn’s post office. Selected stories. A cask of Jerepigo.

A writer of extraordinary depth and vision, and great humourist, Bosman combines a throwaway roughness with mischievousness, selective brilliance, and a tragic sense of human fallibility. His work communicates a unique, poignant flavour that has touched the hearts of all South Africans. Here are the sounds and smells of the platteland, the rough voices, the open skies.

His wildness, subtlety, defiance and -playful dreaming caper through the pages, from the charm of ‘A Bekkersdal Marathon’ to the unexpectedness of the startling chronicle of his imprisonment that is ‘Cold Stone Jug’.

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