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Blessed Are The Dead
Malla Nunn
Atria
June 2012
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Featuring: Emmanuel Cooper
ISBN: 1451616929 EAN: 9781451616927 Kindle: B004IK98CE Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery
Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper returns in this powerful,
atmospheric novel about two communities forced to confront
each other after a murder that exposes their secret ties and
forbidden desires in apartheid South Africa, by
award-winning author Malla Nunn. The body of a beautiful seventeen-year-old Zulu girl,
Amahle, is found covered in wildflowers on a hillside in the
Drakensberg Mountains, halfway between her father’s compound
and the enormous white-owned farm where she worked.
Detective Sergeant Cooper and Detective Constable Samuel
Shabalala are sent to the desolate landscape to investigate.
They soon discover that Amahle’s life was woven into both
the black and white communities in ways they could never
have imagined. Cooper and Shabalala must enter the guarded
worlds of a traditional Zulu clan and a divided white
farming community to gather up the secrets she left behind
and bring her murderer to justice. In a country deeply divided by apartheid, where the law is
bent as often as it is broken, Emmanuel Cooper fights
against all odds to deliver justice and bring together two
seemingly disparate and irreconcilable worlds despite the
danger that is arising.
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