A Dance in the Sun (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Dan Jacobson
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1950’s
- Setting: A farm in the Karroo, South Africa
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Frank, Mr. Fletcher, Mrs. Fletcher, Ignatius “Nasie” Louw, Joseph
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Class conflict, Race, Social issues, Prejudices or antipathies, South Africa or South Africans, Apartheid
- Locales: South Africa
The Novel
Almost all the action of A Dance in the Sun occurs on a farm near Mirredal, a small, nondescript village in the barren Karroo area of South Africa. Two university students, the unnamed narrator and his friend Frank, are hitchhiking to Cape Town from their hometown of Lyndhurst (probably modeled on Kimberley). Marooned for the night in Mirredal, where a wedding party has filled the only hotel, they are directed to a nearby farm, which in the past has taken guests.
The plot of the novel has to do with the consequences of a crime committed several years...
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