First published 1977
Trapped on her family's remote farm, a bitter woman silently seethes against her callous father and the servants who scorn her. Desperate to escape her invisibility, she hatches a plan to assert her presence in the only way she can - through an act of shocking violence. A fierce, uncompromising portrait of isolation and the lengths one woman will go to be seen.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, african-literature, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: South Africa
Period: 20th-century
160 pages · Paperback · Minerva
Content warnings: violence