When Ingi Friedlander travels to Tallejare in the dry interior of South Africa to purchase a statue, its eccentric sculptor, Jonty Jack, does not want to sell - he says it was not his creation, but appeared one morning as though it had miraculously risen from the ground. As Ingi decides to stay and try to win Jonty's trust, she becomes involved in other quests, as she soon realises that Tallejare is not just a hot, sleepy town, but a world in which stories of love, revenge and greed whirl like dust devils and the past is ...
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When Ingi Friedlander travels to Tallejare in the dry interior of South Africa to purchase a statue, its eccentric sculptor, Jonty Jack, does not want to sell - he says it was not his creation, but appeared one morning as though it had miraculously risen from the ground. As Ingi decides to stay and try to win Jonty's trust, she becomes involved in other quests, as she soon realises that Tallejare is not just a hot, sleepy town, but a world in which stories of love, revenge and greed whirl like dust devils and the past is ever-present. Gradually she realises that the townspeople suspect she has come to seek a different treasure - the legendary wagon of gold brought in by defeated Boer soldiers. But where is it buried? What of the other more macabre cargo that the wagon carried? And what dark secret of the past does deaf and dumb Italian POW, Mario Salviati, have to hide?
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Corners lightly bumped; "Advanced Reading Copy" blacked out on both covers. 439 p. Pictorial wraps; glued binding.
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NF in NF jacket. Neither remainder no ex-lib. Hardcover with beige paper over boards and red quarter-binding, in beige, red and gold embossed jacket, 8vo. 1st printin (stated, consistent with number line). 435pp. NF/NF. Book has touches of discoloiration to textblock on pp.428 & 433 (latter in acknowledgments).; small unmarked inventory label upper ffep. Jacket has mild softening at extreme spine ends; faint clouding over binding edges on gold embossed surface. Book and jacket are othwerwise as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Printing of First US Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Translated by Catherine Knox. Front lower corner is slightly bumped, else Fine. Bright red and cream binding, gilt titled on red spine. Very clean and unmarked; tight and solid. Internals in Fine Condition. This story is set in South Africa in a small town shrouded in secrecy and legend, by award-winning Afrikaans writer Etienne Van Heerden. 435 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 2003, Regan Books/HarperCollins, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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SIGNED by author on bookplate affixed to half-title page; vg in near fine jacket; board corners lightly rubbed, minor soiling on top of textblock else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped jacket.