Sacrificed

by Chanette Paul, Elsa Silke (Translator)

Overview

Rejected by everyone except her extraordinary daughter, Caz lives a secluded life in rural South Africa. But a single phone call from her estranged sister shatters this refuge. This phone call is the first step down an ever-widening tunnel into Caz's painful past. From the Congo's sparkling diamond mines to Belgium's finest art galleries, from Africa's civil unrest to its deeply spiritual roots, Sacrificed seamlessly crosses borders and decades with a fiercely captivating story.

Chanette Paul has published forty-one bestselling romance, thriller, and crime novels in her native Afrikaans in South Africa. This is her first book to be translated into English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946395009
Publisher:	Catalyst Press
Publication date:	10/24/2017
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.88(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Chanette Paul: South African writer Chanette Paul has published 41 crime, suspense and romance novels over her prolific career. A bestselling author in her native country, she makes her U.S./English debut with Sacrificed.

Chanette’s stories are marked by strong female characters, women who earn their strength by confronting their demons, both internal and external, and by taking full responsibility for their choices. Her books are also known for the subtle social commentary and dry humor.

In South Africa, Chanette has been nominated six times for the prestigious ATKV-Woordveertjies award and has won the South African Lekkerlit award 3 times. She serves as an editor for LAPA Publishers. Sacrificed was translated into Dutch and launched in 2015 at the Antwerp Book Fair.

Editorial Reviews

"[A] page-turner that will keep you reading long past the moment the midnight oil burns out"

Janet Levine

10/15/2017
This is the first of South African Paul's 31 novels to be translated into English. The action spans 50 years, with a large cast of characters, and moves from South Africa to Belgium and back, with stops along the way in the Congo. In 1961, Ammie abandons her newborn to a foster mother, paying off Fien in stolen diamonds. Ammie, fearing that the baby's father is her thoroughly evil husband, wants nothing more to do with the child. Caz grows up and gives birth to Lilah, whose skin is dark even though both of her parents are white. Twenty years later, Caz is called to Belgium, where a dying Fien wants to talk about Caz's birth mother. Meanwhile, two Congolese men are shadowing her; a professor is fixated on her. There are complicated reasons for why all this happens, but it all ends in the chance of love for Caz. VERDICT Despite its exploration of South Africa's racial issues, this convoluted romantic mystery thriller takes too long to get to the point, with too many brief chapters changing focus and adding little to the plot development. Be prepared for a slow read.—David Keymer, Cleveland

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