DAVID ROBBINS THE WALL AND OTHER SOUTH AFRICAN PLATTELAND IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Wall concerns a farmer's struggle with elements and drought-ravaged soil, Saxophone Blowing is a poignant vignett of man whose disspated lifestyle is losing all meaning for him. In The Deluge a broken fanbelt and a hot, dusty country road lead to an encounter with Hester and her father and a discovery of the secrets they share.  Memory deals with adolescence and tentative young love on platteland farm. The New Teacher who comes to take over the dorp school in small farming community. In the final story Departure, Johann de Klerk, forced off the land by drought, finds work as railway porter and finall comes face to face with his own mortality. Jonathan Ball softcover well-binded, clean pages 137 pages.