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South Africa

The Book of Happenstance
By Ingrid Winterbach
Translated by Dirk Winterbach

When an Afrikaans lexicographer’s collection of conch shells is stolen, a prime suspect is found hanged and a character from her wild past reemerges in this literary mystery.

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