Sabbatsreis

Annelie Botes

ISBN:

9780624045106

Publisher:

Tafelberg

Date Released:

June 2007

Price (incl. VAT):

R 365.00

Format:

Soft cover, 288pp


About this book:

The wheels of the aircraft lift. I tear loose from Africa. My trip to England to earn pounds is finally under way. Nobody knows that I am going to jump off a bridge in London. Because I have had enough of fighting a financial mess that I created myself. Gambling and foreign exchange have sent me to hell and back seventy times seven.

My soul-searching journey was a heavenly night from hell. Articulating it exposed me. But my compelling need to look in my own mirror was never greater. What I saw made me flinch. And yet, gradually, as the layer of vapour on the mirror dissipated, I saw behind me in the mirror a crowd of faces. Searchers, like me. The lost. The blind and the clairvoyant. The cursed and the blessed. All just like me. So that I could not but step into the midst of the crowd in the mirror. Because perhaps the essence of life lay somewhere in this multitude. If I did not go searching there I would never know.

It was an uneven road that often caused me to become too deeply lost in myself. However, I gradually came to understand my maze better, the infidelity of my life partner, the abortion. Travelling the road to the end changed me. Finally my own voice could be in harmony with the crooning choir, and I realised that every earthling is on their own Sabbath-day's journey. And I could finally come home to the Promised Land of milk and honey - in myself.

RELATED BOOKS

Doolhof

Rudie van Rensburg

As die katjiepiering blom

Audrey Jantjies

Siembamba

Madelein Rust

Vlam

Sidney Gilroy

Leo

Deon Meyer

Monster

Rudie van Rensburg

Dwelm

Rudie van Rensburg

Gebeente

Etienne van Heerden

Ons skulde

P.P. Fourie

Hans hou sy lyf Sherlock

Rudie van Rensburg

Geheim van die gruwelsand

Zirk van den Berg

Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek

Anchien Troskie

Hulle noem haar Carminda

E. Kotze

Op pad na Moormansgat

Chris Karsten

Die verkeerde vrou

Irma Venter

Hans kry troukoors

Rudie van Rensburg

Buit

Dibi Breytenbach

Laaste kans

Marita van der Vyver

Zanzibar Zen

Marnus Hattingh

Diana se dag

Helene de Kock

Infanta (filmuitgawe)

Deon Meyer

Van vaders en vlugtelinge

SJ Naudé

Duiwelsroos

Leon van Nierop

Die wet van Gauteng

Hannes Barnard

Deelfontein

Nicole Jaekel Strauss

Hemel en aarde en ons

Zirk van den Berg

Grootgeluk

Jan van Tonder

Dolos

Jaco Wolmarans

Al wat tel

Irma Venter

Maalkolk

Marie Lotz

Kwaaiwater

Irna van Zyl

Sagie is

Jan van Tonder

Wit leuen

Ruan Kemp

Hou jou oë oop

Brian Fredericks

Mara

Marida Fitzpatrick

Die onsigbare pou

Zirk van den Berg

Flora

Engela Ovies

Die verleiding van Eva de Winter

Louis Krüger

Die vloek van Levitikus

Ben Viljoen

Sagie se storie

Jan van Tonder

Moederland

Madelein Rust

Duifeling

Lize Albertyn-du Toit

bottelnek breek bek

Dianne Albertze

Eugene

Kirby Van der Merwe

Bloedsomer

Sidney Gilroy

Die melkweg en die miskruier

Jeanette Ferreira

Polsslag

Marie Lotz

Helene de Kock Keur 9

Helene de Kock

Vuurvoël

Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn

Christine le Roux Keur 7

Christine le Roux