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IMMORALITY ACT

Berend Mets

ISBN 978-1-916668-28-7

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Publication: 29 FEBRUARY 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668287
Price: £9.49
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 127 mm
Extent: 384 pp
Illustrated: None
Thema: FV Historical Fiction

Author location: USA
Book location: South Africa

• A literary historical fiction novel set in Cape
Town in the 1960s, following a passionate love
affair across the colour bar.
• Told from the perspective of a corrupt police
officer, seeking redemption after the events of
the novel.
• A moving account of the impact of apartheid,
racism and colonialism on ordinary lives.

Dr Berend Mets was born in Indonesia of Dutch parents, and Cape Town, in the 1960s. Love across the colour bar is a
amongst other countries grew up in apartheid South Africa where he criminal offence punishable by imprisonment.
became a doctor, anaesthetist and scientist. He came to fiction
through an MFA degree after a career of medical, historical and John Terreblanche, a police reporter seeking redemption,
scientific writing. Berend is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the tells the story of a Xhosa nurse, Promise Madiba, a Dutch
Pennsylvania State University and divides his time between America, doctor, Willem Jansen, and a Malay prostitute, Marja de
the Dutch Caribbean, and Cape Town, South Africa. Koning, who engage in a passionate love triangle in the
shadow of the Sharpeville massacre, as South Africa
lurches to independence from Great Britain.

Violent yet tender, Immorality Act spans from Indonesia to
Cape Town and is a moving account of the impact of
apartheid, racism and colonialism on lives in the twentieth
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