Red Dog

A blistering, brutal novel of the South African frontier from a major new literary voice in the eighteenth century, a giant strides the border of the Cape colony frontier. Coenraad de buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally. Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. Red dog is a brilliant, fiercely powerful novel – a wild, epic tale of Africa in a time before boundaries between cultures and peoples were fixed, based on the life of a real historical figure.