Immorality Act by Berend Mets
On Tour 28th February – 8th March 2024
Publication Day: 28th Febrary 2024
Publisher: The Book Guild
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.
Meet Berend Mets
Dr Berend Mets was born in Indonesia of Dutch parents, and amongst other countries grew up in apartheid South Africa where he became a doctor, anaesthetist and scientist.
He came to fiction through an MFA degree after a career of medical, historical and scientific writing.
Berend is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Pennsylvania State University and divides his time between America, the Dutch Caribbean, and Cape Town, South Africa.
Book Tour Schedule
| February 28th |
|---|
| Jan.loves.books (IG) |
| fiction_vixen18 (IG) |
| February 29th |
|---|
| Rambling Mads |
| TheBookishHermit |
| March 1st |
|---|
| prdgreads |
| March 2nd |
|---|
| emmas_wellbeing_page (IG) |
| March 3rd |
|---|
| fatguyreading (IG) |
| March 4th |
|---|
| Laura Lyndhurst |
| book_a_holic_17 (IG) |
| March 5th |
|---|
| snowphiethebookworm (IG) |
| whatyoutolkienabout |
| March 6th |
|---|
| bookswith_gina (IG) |
| Sharon Beyond The Books |
| March 7th |
|---|
| thelarlbookworm (IG) |
| Titleswtyler (IG) |
| March 8th |
|---|
| Sue Loves to Read |
| Bookworm86 |
