Overview
Region
Southern Africa
South Africa
Era
Contemporary
Language
Afrikaans
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
A poor white Afrikaner family lives in Triomf, a suburb built on the rubble of Sophiatown. Set in the final days before South Africa's first democratic election, a black comedy of white decline.
Literary Significance
One of the most celebrated Afrikaans novels; a savage self-portrait of Afrikaner decline at the end of apartheid