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Wolf, Wolf Author: Eben Venter

ISBN: 9781925106404 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 272 Published: 28 January 2015 Country of Publication: AU Dimensions (cm): 20.9 x 13.5 x 2.0 Description: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2014

How should a man be? Mattie Duiker is trying very hard to live up to his dying father's wishes. He is putting aside childish things, starting his first business serving healthy takeaway food to the workers in his district of Cape Town. His Pa is proud.

At the same time, Mattie is pulled toward an altogether other version of masculinity, in which oiled and toned bodies cavort for him at the click of a mouse. His porn addiction both threatens his relationship with his boyfriend Jack and imperils his inheritance.

His peacocking days as a swaggering businessman are done, but even as the cancer shrivels and crisps him, old Pa's ancient authority intensifies as it shrinks, like Mattie's own signature sauce. Pa haltingly prepares his son for life without him and himself for life without a male heir. And, while the family wrestles with matters of entitlement and inheritance, around them a new South Africa is quietly but persistently nudging its way forwards.

Wolf, Wolf is a novel of old rigid states and new unfinished forms, o...

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