num_pages: 210
description: Mixing mirth with tragedy, this multi-layered novel investigates the eviscerating effect of trauma on a young boy's mind. Experimental in several ways, the book is set up as a bizarre and disturbing scrapbook belonging to Ace and Rem, two South African brothers. The reader of the scrapbook is a war correspondent who has traveled from Amsterdam to South Africa to talk to the boys, hoping to find their connection to events across two continents that have left a trail of shattered lives. Deft characterization shows the growing ties between the boys and the journalist, and, despite the horrors, the result is an engrossing story that is both cynical and tenderly hilarious.
language: English
title: Six Fang Marks & a Tetanus Shot
titlecomplete: Six Fang Marks & a Tetanus Shot
genres: Fiction, Novels, South Africa, Africa
ratings_count: 50
places: South Africa
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: University of Johannesburg Prize
category: Best First Book
publisher: Jacana Media