"This may be my favourite book this year. It abounds with feral energy - pulsed with passion for people, places and a lost landscape. The landscape is the township, the veld, the politically charged Africa of the 'great crocodile' PW Botha. The beautiful and beleaguered heart of South Africa is evoked in a healthy brew of tumbling prose and perfectly executed poetic vignettes. Autobiographical and exacting. It machetes a swathe through personal observation, love and loss, referencing obscure (for us) South African pop bands. Paul Auster, Boris Pasternak. Shimmering in the heat of this cauldron of words are the family. Friends. Loves and get the heart of this book an emotional map of a beloved country torn apart and a man also perhaps by political, personal, tragic, comic and calamitous change evident throughout this book. Recommend would be too mild a word for this book. I insist that you read it. Insist that you see for yourself how powerful literature can be, how daringly delivered and how fearless and how the personal is always universal and impinges on us all. Yes yes yes."
Kevin Cadwallender

Gérard Rudolf is a writer, poet and actor. He was born in South Africa and grew up in the cultural car crash zones of Cape Town and Johannesburg. After setting fire to his life in Cape Town he headed for the UK where he started writing full time in order to orientate himself on the map. This is his first collection of poetic writings.