Time of the Butcherbird by Alex La Guma

Time of the Butcherbird

Alex La Guma

128 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

fiction dark mysterious tense slow-paced
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Out on the flat, featureless South African veld, a small mining town is waiting for rain. As the oppressive summer wears on, the white Afrikaner townspeople seem to be unaware of the storm brewing out on the plain. Out in the bush, a shepherd reca...

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