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Theo & Flora

ISBN 
9781415210192
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R300.00
Published 
November 2018
About the book: 
When stalled novelist Charlie Wasserman’s investment-banker wife divorces him, he finds among her belongings a box of letters. Written between 1940 and 1944, the letters reveal a love affair between her grandfather, Theo, a forty-something lawyer at the time, and Flora, a much younger journalist.
 
Even though Wasserman’s ex-wife has her lawyers instruct him to destroy the letters, an idea for a new book – a novel that could rekindle his career – is sparked.
 
As Wasserman’s preoccupation with the story of Theo and Flora grows, their lives unfurl in a symphony of brilliant detail against the backdrop of 1940s Cape Town and the war in Europe. In finely crafted prose full of wit and poignancy,  Theo & Flora  showcases the skill of one of South Africa’s great contemporary novelists.
 
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About the Author

Mark Winkler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels An Exceptionally Simple Theory  (of Absolutely Everything), Wasted, as well as The Safest Place You Know  and Theo & Flora,  both of which were shortlisted for the Sunday Times  Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. His work has been published worldwide in English and in French translation. 

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