Michiel Heyns

Michiel Heyns is a South African novelist and translator. He is the author of ten novels and a book on the Nineteenth-century novel. Two of his translations were short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and antoher long-listed for the Man International Booker Prize.

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“a post-existentialist novel about the futility of making choices but the greater sadness of living passively.