A stunning high-concept post-apocalyptic debut novel in the vein of The Passage by Justin Cronin and Wool by Hugh Howey.
Frank Owen is the pseudonym for two authors - Diane Awerbuck and Alex Latimer. Diane Awerbuck's debut novel GARDENING AT NIGHT (published here by Secker & Warburg) won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize and Diane was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014. She has long been regarded as one of South Africa's most talented writers. Alex Latimer is an award-winning writer and illustrator whose books have been translated into several languages.
Dark and beautiful and surprising. I loved it.
*Lauren Beukes*
South is an absolute blinder of a book. With its cracking pace,
unforgettable characters, deliciously gruesome premise and
you-won't-see-them-coming twists, if this doesn't make 'book of the
year' shortlists, I will eat my Stetson. The Sisters Brothers meets
The Stand, it's a post-apocalyptic genre game changer.
*Sarah Lotz*
There are echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's
The Stand, plus graphic violence and heart-stopping action set
pieces, but what lifts South above many recent examples of the
subgenre is Owen's pared-down prose, slick narrative and the
sensitive depiction of Dyce and Vida's relationship.
*Guardian*
There's a constant, creeping sense of menace, plus enough fresh
ideas to give South its own identity.
*David West, SFX*
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