The butterfly month - Ariëlla Kornmehl, Faith Hunter (Translator)Condition: Pre loved Betrayed by her parents, her lover, and her own body, Joni, a young doctor, leaves her home in the Netherlands for a rural hospital in post apartheid South Africa. There she lives a life of self imposed exile, dominated and deadened by the daily stream of medical emergencies confronting her, the inadequacies of the system she works in, and the loneliness of her empty domestic existence. Apart from a few brief erotic encounters,

In a beguilling blend of high comedy and poignancy

Never the poet

deliciously lethal in its observation

Heartbreaking

who suffers from clinical depression

Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at how these floating behemoths function

precise prose that sees humanity everywhere

grieving the death of her father

promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once

and pervasive conformity

on the doorstep of her luxe townhouse

Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect