- Title:
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Call it Dog (MP3)
- Written by:
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Marli Roode
- Read by:
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Jennifer Vuletic
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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11 hours 41 minutes
- MP3 size:
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507 MB
- Published:
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November 01 2013
- Available Date:
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November 01 2013
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486202430
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Award winning author
Debut novel
UK Author
Call It Dog explores the limits of family loyalty in the face of a young woman's – and a nation's – desire to right past wrongs.
Jo returns to South Africa after ten years in the UK to cover the riots sweeping the Jo’burg township of Alex. Nico, her estranged Afrikaner father, reappears and asks her to help prove his innocence in the murder of a black man who was abducted by the security forces decades earlier. As they set off on a road trip through South Africa’s now-unfamiliar landscape, it becomes clear that Nico knows more about the murder than he is letting on, and Jo begins to wonder whether she is his accomplice or his captive.
Set against the backdrop of a country struggling to absorb its bloody history and forge a new democracy, Call It Dog asks whether justice and truth are more important than the bonds of loyalty and love, and explores what is it like to feel you no longer belong in the land of your birth – or to your own family.
'A remarkably assured first novel.'
Sunday Times
'Urgent and necessary.'
The Guardian
'Marli Roode's debut tackles some big themes... the assuredness with which Roode handles the nuances of the father-daughter dynamic ... hints of greater things to come.'
Financial Times
'A timely reminder of the fragile peace [Nelson Mandela] will bequeath his land ...'
Daily Mail