... especially the outgoing Director. Despite promising first impressions, the country’s new chief censor has been acting strangely. Is he too unstable to be trusted with the nation’s most sensitive materials? What is the new Director’s private, puzzling agenda?
No one else in the Bureau seems to sense the looming danger, so the outgoing Director begins to pen a missive to a distant recipient, the only person who might understand his plight, but also the man he dethroned in the first place – his own predecessor.
A tale of trysts, paranoia, poetry and state secrets, Blot is an audacious and original novel, filled with unquenchable desires and clandestine messages. It asks the nagging question on every page: can anyone trust the words they read?
This edition will be for sale in South Africa.
‘De Villiers’s hero comes from a long line of petty bureaucratic tyrants, but his Nabokov-flavoured prose is a joy to read.’
– J. M. Coetzee
‘A love letter to literature from the most unlikely of candidates.’
– Bongani Kona
