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DIE OOG
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Die Oog is ’n bonatuurlike riller gemeng met ’n goeie dosis tong-in-die-kies humor, ’n tikkie geskiedenis, ’n titseltjie romanse, ’n knippie filosofie en ’n sterk geur van misterie … ’n donker avontuurverhaal vol goedige, doodernstige draakstekery.
Alles is nie pluis in Donkerstroom nie. Die inwoners van hierdie afgesonderde dorpie se daaglikse lewe word gekenmerk deur bygeloof en sinistere rituele wat ontstaan het met ’n gelofte wat ’n groep verhongerde trekkers toentertyd gemaak het. En nou woel die hele dorp in die greep van iets wat onder in Donkerstroom se water ronddraai.
Die onderliggende spanning in die gemeenskap word op ’n spits gedryf en dinge begin roer in die verlore vallei wanneer ’n waterinspekteur uit Johannesburg tydens ’n fratsongeluk vermis raak. Sy kollega, Stefan die wetenskaplike, sou eerder graag wou vlug. Zadie, sy vuurvreter van ’n assistent, se aspirasies om ondersoekende joernalis te speel, kry egter die oorhand. Of miskien is dit die wulpse Ismérie en die melankoliese Lorelei wat Stefan se gewone koelkop besluitneming beduiwel terwyl hulle al dieper in ’n spiraal van geweld ingetrek word … (ISBN: 9781928518280)
R250.00 van https://naledi.online/product/die-oog/
Die Oog is ’n bonatuurlike riller gemeng met ’n goeie dosis tong-in-die-kies humor, ’n tikkie geskiedenis, ’n titseltjie romanse, ’n knippie filosofie en ’n sterk geur van misterie … ’n donker avontuurverhaal vol goedige, doodernstige draakstekery.
Alles is nie pluis in Donkerstroom nie. Die inwoners van hierdie afgesonderde dorpie se daaglikse lewe word gekenmerk deur bygeloof en sinistere rituele wat ontstaan het met ’n gelofte wat ’n groep verhongerde trekkers toentertyd gemaak het. En nou woel die hele dorp in die greep van iets wat onder in Donkerstroom se water ronddraai.
Die onderliggende spanning in die gemeenskap word op ’n spits gedryf en dinge begin roer in die verlore vallei wanneer ’n waterinspekteur uit Johannesburg tydens ’n fratsongeluk vermis raak. Sy kollega, Stefan die wetenskaplike, sou eerder graag wou vlug. Zadie, sy vuurvreter van ’n assistent, se aspirasies om ondersoekende joernalis te speel, kry egter die oorhand. Of miskien is dit die wulpse Ismérie en die melankoliese Lorelei wat Stefan se gewone koelkop besluitneming beduiwel terwyl hulle al dieper in ’n spiraal van geweld ingetrek word … (ISBN: 9781928518280)
SHAGGY: 14 Rather Amusing Rambles...
R145
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https://shop.bkpublishing.co.za/product/shaggy-14-rather-amusing-rambles/
A collection of ironic comedy monologues by a cast of peculiar characters as they operate in contemporary South Africa, which the Oppidan Press called: "a slick literary compilation... satirical, wacky and at times outright absurd."
Shaggy stories include a cast of some of the most manipulative, ingratiating, disillusioned, egotistical, inauthentic, spiteful narcissists operating in contemporary South Africa. You will encounter fourteen first-hand shaggy stories told by a rogues gallery of scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little. These hilarious blowhards will make you snigger, cringe and wish your cousin had rather given you Spud 5 for your birthday.
A number of the Shaggy stories were first published in Benoit Knox's ALookAWay Art Magazine, and some of those I managed to save can be found in the short story section.
Review by Jonothan Amid: http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2011/07/25/jonathan-amid-reviews-shaggy-14-rather-amusing-rambles-by-anton-krueger-and-pravasan-pillay/
"In a country beset by crime, political sideshows, service delivery protests and escalating electricity prices there doesn’t always seem to be too much to laugh about, let alone the kind of laughter that makes your abdominal muscles (that you didn’t know existed) contract and contort and your cheeks start to tickle with tears of joy. Into this seeming void step Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay, who have just released their first collection of 14 short stories, entitled Shaggy: 14 Rather Amusing Rambles. The title in itself did not prepare me one bit for the riotous, rollicking “rambles” I was about to encounter, nor did it give any real hint of its completely overblown yet often scintillating mix of razor-sharp wit, a dry-as-dust tone and a willingness to engage the reader on an intellectual level.
What Krueger and Pillay set out to do with Shaggy is completely explode the conventions and form of the traditional shaggy-dog tale, with its usual long-winded narration and anti-climactic punchline mutated here into 14 short, sharp, seriously funny monologues set forth from the mouths of a motley crew of “scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little”.
R145
Available directly from me, or:
https://shop.bkpublishing.co.za/product/shaggy-14-rather-amusing-rambles/
A collection of ironic comedy monologues by a cast of peculiar characters as they operate in contemporary South Africa, which the Oppidan Press called: "a slick literary compilation... satirical, wacky and at times outright absurd."
Shaggy stories include a cast of some of the most manipulative, ingratiating, disillusioned, egotistical, inauthentic, spiteful narcissists operating in contemporary South Africa. You will encounter fourteen first-hand shaggy stories told by a rogues gallery of scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little. These hilarious blowhards will make you snigger, cringe and wish your cousin had rather given you Spud 5 for your birthday.
A number of the Shaggy stories were first published in Benoit Knox's ALookAWay Art Magazine, and some of those I managed to save can be found in the short story section.
Review by Jonothan Amid: http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2011/07/25/jonathan-amid-reviews-shaggy-14-rather-amusing-rambles-by-anton-krueger-and-pravasan-pillay/
"In a country beset by crime, political sideshows, service delivery protests and escalating electricity prices there doesn’t always seem to be too much to laugh about, let alone the kind of laughter that makes your abdominal muscles (that you didn’t know existed) contract and contort and your cheeks start to tickle with tears of joy. Into this seeming void step Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay, who have just released their first collection of 14 short stories, entitled Shaggy: 14 Rather Amusing Rambles. The title in itself did not prepare me one bit for the riotous, rollicking “rambles” I was about to encounter, nor did it give any real hint of its completely overblown yet often scintillating mix of razor-sharp wit, a dry-as-dust tone and a willingness to engage the reader on an intellectual level.
What Krueger and Pillay set out to do with Shaggy is completely explode the conventions and form of the traditional shaggy-dog tale, with its usual long-winded narration and anti-climactic punchline mutated here into 14 short, sharp, seriously funny monologues set forth from the mouths of a motley crew of “scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little”.
Sunnyside Sal
R120
Available directly from Anton Krueger, or from:
http://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukzn_books&method=view_books&global[fields][_id]=356
Sunnyside Sal is the story of an unusual friendship between two boys growing up in Pretoria, South Africa. It's a jauntily narrated novella set in the tumultuous early 1990s, when a whole generation was discovering that everything they'd been taught to believe was wrong. Fuelled by his reckless bravado and post-punk philosophy, Sal plunges into extreme situations, but his innocent experimentations in rebellion lead him increasingly into hazardous realms. Although ultimately a tragic tale, Sunnyside Sal is borne up throughout by an exuberant humor.
"Anton Krueger's [memoir] is a perceptive look into the world of two young boys whose changing hormones coincide with a country going through its own rebirth." Litnet, Janet van Eeden.
"Light and Dark in mixture of memoir and novel" Review in Mail and Guardian by Jane Rosenthal. https://mg.co.za/article/2010-06-29-light-and-dark-in-mixture-of-memoir-novel/
R120
Available directly from Anton Krueger, or from:
http://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukzn_books&method=view_books&global[fields][_id]=356
Sunnyside Sal is the story of an unusual friendship between two boys growing up in Pretoria, South Africa. It's a jauntily narrated novella set in the tumultuous early 1990s, when a whole generation was discovering that everything they'd been taught to believe was wrong. Fuelled by his reckless bravado and post-punk philosophy, Sal plunges into extreme situations, but his innocent experimentations in rebellion lead him increasingly into hazardous realms. Although ultimately a tragic tale, Sunnyside Sal is borne up throughout by an exuberant humor.
"Anton Krueger's [memoir] is a perceptive look into the world of two young boys whose changing hormones coincide with a country going through its own rebirth." Litnet, Janet van Eeden.
"Light and Dark in mixture of memoir and novel" Review in Mail and Guardian by Jane Rosenthal. https://mg.co.za/article/2010-06-29-light-and-dark-in-mixture-of-memoir-novel/