The devil's chimney

Anne Landsman

Original title: The Devil's Chimney

first published 1997 Granta, 1998 paperback 304 pages

btb TB 72568

In Oudtshoorn, South Africa, Connie Lambrecht lives in the shadow of the vast Cango Caves. In the depths of one of the eerie passages they call the Devil's Chimney, a young colored servant girl once vanished. Connie is haunted by this mystery, and by the story of an upper-class Englishwoman, Miss Beatrice, whose quixotic attempt to raise ostriches at the turn of the century on a farm near this dusty provicial town le...

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Die Brautkammer edition · 2000 · btb · 316 pages
The Devil's Chimney edition · 1999 · Penguin (Non-Classics) · 304 pages · 9780140277463
Devils Chimney paperback · 1998 · Granta · 304 pages · 9781862071766
The devil's chimney edition · 1997 · Soho · 292 pages

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