Synopsis
Shark's Egg marks Henrietta Rose-Innes's debut as a novelist. The novel is as fresh and vital as the sea itself - and as menacing. It tells the story of Joanna's young life in Cape Town and of her school friend Leah's dark and destructive power, while Alan, the third figure, becomes the focus of a moral and sexual struggle between them. The theme is timeless, but the world in which it is worked out is thoroughly contemporary. Rose-Innes has the writer's true gift; she transforms the scattered detail of ordinary experience into coherent worlds of meaning. We know her characters from the inside, because we can sense the climate of their lives through the fine particulars of the writing.
Shark's Egg is a brilliant and auspicious beginning. It indicates a turn away from the public themes that have dominated South African fiction for so long and promises the return of writing that takes the movements of inner life as its proper subject.
Shark's Egg is a brilliant and auspicious beginning. It indicates a turn away from the public themes that have dominated South African fiction for so long and promises the return of writing that takes the movements of inner life as its proper subject.
Titre original : Shark's egg (2000)
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Un livre étonnant. Je ne savais rien d'autre que ce qu'on voit sur la couverture et on ne peut pas dire que ça m'a beaucoup aidé. L'ambiance est vraiment super bien rendue : poisseuse, froide, humide, sombre. Une ambiance de fonds marins. C'est vraiment le point fort de cette histoire car il ne se passe pas tant de choses par ailleurs et je me suis un peu demandé où l'autrice voulait en venir.