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Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Margaret for getting a free copy of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Children’s Day by Michiel Heyns. This unforgettable first novel evokes a young South African boy’s rite of passage in the 1960s. In a deceptively simple narrative, Simon observes a series of newcomers to his small home town and gradually pieces together truths about love, life, politics and sex: realizations which crystallize as a result of a disturbing encounter at the novel’s climax. The confusions of adolescence and the absurdities of South African politics are keenly observed, as Simon struggles to define the world and understand adult certainties – only to discover the dark ambiguities at the center of so much in life.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Tin House Books. The mission of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books remains constant: to publish compelling and authentic narratives of our time. Tin House salutes the artistic edge but remains rooted in the tenets of the classic storytelling tradition.
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, February 12 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
EDIT: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner ANDY. Try your luck again with Geoffrey Becker’s Hot Springs in the new Free Book Friday.
This would fit nicely with my living room’s motif.
Ooh! Looks lovely!
Lovely!
I’m in.
Sounds like an interesting book. As a young South African, I’m alway interested in different perspectives of South African history. It is most definately one of the most absurd and tragic countries on the planet! Will keep an eye open for it.
Sounds cool, yes please!
I’d love a chance!
Sounds interesting!
win win win. i like win.
Looks like a good read.
[...] with several tips for writers. . . . Speaking of debut novels, this week Lit Drift is giving away a copy of The Children’s Day by Michiel Heyns, about a South African boy’s coming of age in the 1960s. . . . Later this month, bookmark [...]
Sounds good – please include me. Thanks!
I’m interested, having spent 18 years in Southern Africa.
Wow! I’d love to win it.
As a new writer I’d consider it my extreme good fortune to win a book of his.