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02762aam a2200409 i 4500 001 994B8A26650911E6BA021E8ADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160818010336 008 160318s2016 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016006383 020 $a 1612195385 020 $a 9781612195384 (hardback) : 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-sa--- 050 00 $a PS3616.R4923 $b M66 2016 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Pretorius, Michelle. 245 14 $a The monster's daughter : $b a novel / $c Michelle Pretorius. 264 1 $a Brooklyn : $b Melville House, $c [2016] 300 $a 455 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "At once a shocking, unputdownable thriller and a brilliantly imagined journey through South Africa's troubled history, The Monster's Daughter is one of the most original and exciting debuts since Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. December 2010. A disgraced young constable named Alet Berg is reassigned to the sleepy provincial town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a young woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads Alet into her country's violent past--a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official who may have played a sinister role during the long, brutal apartheid regime. A hundred years earlier, at the height of the Boer War, a doctor conducts a series of vicious experiments near a British concentration camp, where he intends to breed a new master race. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa. And they are not like other children. The horrors of South Africa's history and the tensions of its present converge in Michelle Pretorius's epic debut, which weaves present and past into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller with echoes of the fantastical. A novel that calls to mind Lauren Beukes's The Shining Girls and Tana French's The Secret Place, The Monster's Daughter will surprise and satisfy you all the way up to its explosive conclusion"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Policewomen $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Young women $x Crimes against $v Fiction. 651 0 $a South Africa $x Race relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Apartheid $z South Africa $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories. 650 0 $a Suspense fiction. 941 $a 7 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020015119.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204083727.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110065628.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20191211012008.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006100839.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418120617.0 952 $l ACPD686 $d 20160922010036.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=994B8A26650911E6BA021E8ADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search