When a reclusive printmaker dies, his friend inherits the thousands of etchings and drawings he has stored in his house over the years. Overwhelmed by the task of sorting and exhibiting this work, she seeks the advice of a curator. What compulsion drove the printmaker to make art for four decades, and why did he so seldom show his prints? When the curator discovers a single, sealed box addressed to a man in Zimbabwe, she feels compelled to go in search of him to present him with the package, hoping to find an answer to the enigma of the printmakers solitary life. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen’s subtle and sophisticated novel reflects on one man’s obsessive need to make meaning through images and to find, in art, the traces of love and friendship.
- ISBN13 9781415209134
- Publish Date 16 September 2016 (first published 29 August 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country ZA
- Publisher Random House (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Imprint Umuzi
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English