Triomf

First edition in English. Large 8vo. Pp. [x], 528, [6 (blank)]. Publisher's orange cloth, stamped in blue foil to spine; navy blue endpapers. Glossary. Translated from the Afrikaans by Leon de Kock. The scarce casebound edition published a year before the paperback version and preceding the U.S. edition by the Overlook Press by some five years. Originally published in Afrikaans by Queillerie Publishers (Pty) Ltd, Pretoria, in 1994.

Winner of the 1995 Noma Award for the best book published in Africa in any language or genre. Named by the Mail and Guardian as the best Afrikaans novel of the decade. A poor white family in the working-class suburb of Triomf, erected over the rubble of Sophiatown, await with trepidation the outcome of South Africa's first free elections. Dramatized in 2008 by director Michael Raeburn, the film starred Lionel Newton, Vanessa Cooke, Obed Baloyi, and Eduan van Jaarsveldt. "South Africa's only world-class tragicomic novel, the kind that stabs at your heart while it has you rolling on the floor." –Rob Nixon, The New York Times Book Review