A gay man who lives in Australia visits South Africa. The purpose of the visit is two-fold: to see his ageing and beloved mother, who lives alone in a retirement village, and to do research on rhino poaching to write a fictional account of two poachers who enter the Great Fish River Reserve in order to kill a rhinoceros and sell its horn. The fiction parts are written from various points of view. Most notably – and rather unusually – this includes the point of view of the old rhinoceros cow who stands at the centre of the narrative. The author-character has named her Decima, and attempts to tell her story.
- ISBN10 1415209995
- ISBN13 9781415209998
- Publish Date 31 March 2023
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country ZA
- Publisher Random House (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Imprint Umuzi
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English