About the Book
Unhappily married Cape Town academic Art Berger is offered what appears to be a professional lifeline: to reconstitute the final papers of the great South African writer Charles de Villiers into the novel he was writing at the time of his death. Art is uncomfortable about the role of ghostwriter, but the project becomes literary detective work that he cannot give up. Introduced to De Villiers�s beautiful daughter Taryn, and Art is ensnared. Sunderland alternates between sections, mostly in journal form, chronicling Arts struggle to make sense of De Villiers�s fragmented and disordered text, and sections scenes notes, outlines.
About the Author
Ken Barris lives in Cape Town, and works at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. His publications include two collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and six novels. His work has been translated into Turkish, Danish, French, German and Slovenian. He has also won various literary awards, including the Ingrid Jonker Prize, the M-Net Book Prize, and the 2013 University of Johannesburg Prize for his novel Life Underwater.
Michael Cope has worked, among other things, as a designer, jeweller and a computer programmer. He also teaches Goju karate, and has published two novels, Spiral of Fire (1986) and Goldin: A Tale (2005), two volumes of poems, a memoir, Intricacy: A Meditation on Memory (2005), as well as several chapbooks of poetry. He is a veteran performer of poetry and lives in Cape Town.
