The third reel
Naudé, S. J., 1970-2018
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Twenty two year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns and Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living in derelict artists' communes. When Etienne finds the first of three reels of a German film from the 1930s, he begins searching for the missing reels, a project that turns into an obsession when his lover disappears in Berlin. It is while navigating this city divided by the Wall that Etienne gradually pieces together the history of a small group of Jewish film makers in Nazi Germany. It is a desperate quest amid complications that pull him back to the present and to South Africa. However, his search for the missing film continues.
Main title:
The third reel / S.J. Naudé.
Author:
Naudé, S. J., 1970-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Cromer, Norfolk : Salt, 2018.©2018.
Collation:
382 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781784631505 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
343168