by Antony Sher · Little Brown and Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349108254
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«Middlepost» is Antony Sher's tragicomic novel, published by Little Brown and Company in paperback (445 pages, in English).
A Lithuanian emigrant flees anti-Semitism and arrives in South Africa at the end of the 19th century. In the settlement of Middlepost he crosses paths with singular characters: Breedt and Quinn, enemies from the Boer War; April, a slave who recites Shakespeare; Nakosa, the bushgirl; and the Scuteris, barbers and itinerant opera singers.
The 1996 paperback edition includes five illustrations by the author; the cover shows two intertwined sea creatures and reproduces a quote from Francis King (The Spectator) about the novel.
Readers seeking tragicomic humour, colourful characters and an unusual South African historical setting will appreciate this novel.
Sir Antony Sher was a British actor, writer and theatre director of South African origin. A two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and a five-time nominee, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and television. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood's play Mahler's Conversion and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles.
