Talking Location With Joanna O’Donoghue – WORLD
The Tyranny of Trust
Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
Genre(s): Thriller
Era(s): 1970s
In Cape Town, South Africa in 1972, Aaron meets Angela in a bar. He has no way of knowing that she has sought him out because he is a White man about to move into District Six – an area that just days before had been Black, with the reclassification causing mass enforced evictions. He’s not to know that she’s Coloured – her skin is as white as his as they disrobe – but now he has broken the law by sleeping with her and his freedom is in her hands. He’s also not to know that she’s a political assassin and probably the most dangerous woman that he’s ever likely to meet.
What he does know is that there is something bubbling under the surface in the South Africa around him and there’s an energy in the stolen house he shares with the marijuana smoke, political discourse and public expressions of the flesh. It is unseen and unheard but always threatening to build to a crescendo and blow his world apart.
To review this book, please
Please wait...
