Circles in a forest
By: Dalene Matthee.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: afr
Translation of: Kringe in ’n Bos
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780394539119
Subjects: Knysna (South Africa) -- History -- Fiction.
Description: Saul Barnard has grown up in Knysna, the son of a wood cutter and descendent of the first Dutch colonists in South Africa to make the forest their home and livelihood. But as he comes of age, Saul begins to question the life to which he is born and is turned out when he defies his father. The story follows Saul from his past to the present day when he is back in the forest and tracking an elephant with which he has a mystical connection.