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Can I read The Shallows on EtoBox?
The Shallows by Winterbach, Ingrid; Heyns, Michiel is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Shallows about?
Painter Nick Steyn moves to the City Bowl in Cape Town after separating from his partner, Isabel. A young boarder moves in with Nick and they soon become friends. But one night she does not come home, and his attempts to trace her come to nothing. A few weeks later the prosperous artist Buks Verhoef makes an offer on Nick's house. Is there a connection between these events, and if so, could Nick's former friend, Victor Schoeman, the author of the outrageous novel The Shallows, have a hand in them? A parallel narrative concerns a nameless Stellenbosch woman who is writing a monograph on the famous Olivier brothers. One day she witnesses the murder of Buks Verhoef in a coffee shop; soon thereafter a sinister man starts stalking her. Could this also be Victor Schoeman? A fantastical, absurd yet haunting novel by the award-winning novelist Ingrid Winterbach. Translated as always by Michiel Heyns.
Who reads The Shallows?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Winterbach, Ingrid; Heyns, Michiel
- Publisher
- Human & Rousseau (pty) Ltd, Human & Rousseau
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780798174305
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Music, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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