"With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state\'s responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past." -- The Boston Sunday Globe A House gun, like a House cat: a fact of ordinary daily life.
How else can you defend yourself against intruders and thieves in post-apartheid South Africa? The respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor. "With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state\'s responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past." -- The Boston Sunday Globe A House gun, like a House cat: a fact of ordinary daily life