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Paperback The Ibis Tapestry Book

ISBN: 0679780955

ISBN13: 9780679780953

The Ibis Tapestry

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An audacious departure for the internationally acclaimed South African novelist--a thriller with all the searing immediacy of today's headlines.
Who was Christo Mercer, and why was he brutally stabbed to death in a remote Saharan town? For Robert Poley, an unhappy writer of political thril-lers, the welcome distraction posed by this question has become an obsession. With the mysterious delivery of a laptop computer and a cryptic E-mail message,...

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A tale of post-Apartheid South Africa

I read the Ibis Tapestry during a recent visit to South Africa and was struck at how accurately the novel captures some of the complexities of the country in these post-apartheid times. If the main character, Christo Mercer, were real, he probably would have been telling his stories to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. I'm not sure how much I would have appreciated the novel without the benefit of my experiences in South Africa, but I think it is a compelling thriller and well worth reading in any event.
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