Today I am on the tour for Immorality Act by Berend Mets, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.
Pages: 384
Synopsis: Cape Town, in the 1960s.
Love across the colour bar is a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment.
John Terreblanche, a police reporter seeking redemption, tells the story of a Xhosa nurse, Promise Madiba, a Dutch doctor, Willem Jansen, and a Malay prostitute, Marja de Koning, who engage in a passionate love triangle in the shadow of the Sharpeville massacre, as South Africa lurches towards becoming a Republic.
Violent yet tender, Immorality Act spans from Indonesia to Cape Town and is a moving account of the impact of apartheid, racism and colonialism on lives in the twentieth century, as well as a celebration of the ungovernability of the human spirit.
My Thoughts: this book absolutely broke my heart, because it’s someone else telling their story it kind of felt like diary entries which made the whole thing feel more real.
It was raw and honest, but it absolutely beggars belief that people could be prosecuted or worse for being involved with someone of a different race.
The author does a brilliant job of showing the hardships as well as the beautiful moments that happen to our main characters along the way.
It’s one of those books that is an important read and you know that but you’re torn between putting it down because it’s utterly heartbreaking and being so invested in the characters lives that you need to know what happens and how far the story goes.
I would absolutely recommend this to everyone who feels able to deal with the difficult topic, it’s a story that although is fiction was real for a lot of people and it will stay with you.
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