Mad Dog ( Editura: Outlet - carte limba engleza, Autor: Etienne Van Heerden ISBN 0-7490-0112-7 )

Contemporary South Africa is the concern of international bestseller, Ettiene van Herdeen. As in Ancestral Voices, his hugely successful fisrt novel which was transalted into thirteen languages, his setting is the Eastern cape, its people, language or landscape.

These thirteen tales encompass a variety of worlds, from remote farm to sophisticated city advertising agency, from township violence to military camp , from university campus to school playground. A soldier tethers a Cuban prisoner like a dog,  a bishop is caught up in a township violence, a boy crawls into Olive Schreiner's stone sarcophagus, a young copywrighter finds himself with a hired prostitute.

All are characters preoccupied with the past, dreaming of the future, and seemingly incapable of breaking free from the violence that was, and still largely is, South Africa.