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When Flip Lochner, a seedy journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he assumes it is a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for the "truth" first hinted at by a young Cape Town student who was mysteriously killed. Nothing in Devil's Valley is as it seems: it is a place where righteousness prevails by day and depravity prevails at night, where the supernatural is an everyday ingredient, the living and the dead never quite separate, the grotesque coexists with the banal. Vibrant and darkly humorous, Devil's Valley is a bewitching novel mixing myth, metaphor, and memory. It is splendid storytelling by a master of fiction.
When Flip Lochner, a seedy journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he assumes it is a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for the "truth" first hinted at by a young Cape Town student who was mysteriously killed. Nothing in Devil's Valley is as it seems: it is a place where righteousness prevails by day and depravity prevails at night, where the supernatural is an everyday ingredient, the living and the dead never quite separate, the grotesque coexists with the banal. Vibrant and darkly humorous, Devil's Valley is a bewitching novel mixing myth, metaphor, and memory. It is splendid storytelling by a master of fiction.
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