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Quarter Tones Review"Quarter Tones" is the story of Ana who returns from London to the village of Noordhoek near Cape Town when her father, a luthier, dies. In the coastal village, she gets to know her architect neighbour Franz van der Veer and his uncommunicative brother, Daniel, as the present and past intermingle in her mind. This is a remarkably beautiful and compelling novel. The characters, places and descriptions soar off the page. It works like word music, pulsing with repeating patterns, refrains, leitmotivs. The catalyst is the father's house, cluttered with memorabilia - a motorbike with sidecar, a wooden moulding plane named "Finbar O'Neill" - that bring the past surging back, intensifying Ana's sense of tension between her vaguely unsatisfactory life in Europe and her old deep life with her father "Sam". Much of the strength of the novel is in the richness and subtlety of this relationship, now laid to rest, and the sense of final loss. The physical descriptions - landscapes, weather, interiors - are absolutely gorgeous, as if the English language had been freshly minted to serve them. And there is great delicacy and finesse in the way in which relationships, present and past, are limned. Incisive, unsentimental, lyrical, colourful, moving - just a few words that come to mind when trying to describe this book. Above all, Ana is someone who lives life with eyes wide open. In doing so, she opens our eyes to the splendour and violence of the new and old South Africa, and to her own sense of herself in relation to the world. "Even in crowds she moved like the wind, like a secret, between people, buildings. Often she had to exhale consciously. Even when a shopkeeper overcharged her, or someone was rude to her, it was she who would apologise. Not because she thought she was in the wrong, but to avoid the smallest threat of being noticed or seen. To avoid the threat, the embarrassment, of leaving a stain on the universe." Like a bright new bell, this is writing that rings clear and true. A fresh, poignant voice in contemporary South African fiction. Strongly recommended.Quarter Tones Overview

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