Ted Botha, author of the thrilling Daisy de Melker: Hiding Among Killers in the City of Gold (2023), is back with a novel this time. The Animal Lover is a wild, hilarious, utterly engaging adventure that traverses continents and timelines, transporting readers from modern to colonial Africa and back again, with stops in London, Mexico City and Manila.
Upton Magna, the beleaguered son of evil millionaire Solomon Magna, has been exiled to a backwater city in an unnamed West African country, where a portrait of the cross-eyed president of state for life hangs above the counter of the Shall We Go? Club. Like the weather outside and the water from his shower, Upton’s life is tepid, neither surprising nor unpredictable...
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