- Published: 05/04/2018
- ISBN: 9781783784936
- Granta Books
- 288 pages
The Rowing Lesson
Anne Landsman
Pregnant with her first child, Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the US to her father’s hospital bed in South Africa. Harold Klein is sensual, irascible, a passionately committed doctor, and a complex husband and father. As Betsy sits and waits for him to stir from his coma, she is compelled to imagine his life.
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Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fire and passion
J. M. Coetzee
The Rowing Lesson is a masterclass in the examination of memory's richly layered textures ... Landsman's prose is distilled to a poetic essence, her imagery both precise and exquisite ... Even as we turn its last page, this quiet and moving book continues to smoulder in the imagination
Financial Times Magazine
An elegy and a lament, beautifully written
Times
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