"Die naamlose" (Mariël Le Roux)

This is the name, of the latest book I have read. After completing the book, I still don't understand why it is called "Die naamlose". I couldn't link the name to a specific character or
place in the story. None the less, it was a great book to read. The writer knows, how to take a reader's heart in a firm grip and how to keep it right there until the very end.

If you read a lot of books, you might have learned somewhere along the way, never to judge a book by its cover. This particular book, had a very dull cover. It consists of basically four boring colours: black, brown, pale pink and something between yellow and green. It is not very clear, what the picture on the front of the cover should be, but for me it looked like flowers with their heads hanging, as if they were dying. After reading the book, I thought that picture suited the book perfectly. I took the book from the shelve in the library and turned it over, to read the shortened form of the story on the back. Those little white words, immediately grabbed my attention and the only thing I needed was a couch, a pillow, a warm blanket and a steaming cup of coffee.

The main character Carli, had dark hair and dark skin that was too dark for her father's liking. Her childhood consisted of tears, tears, tears, being scared, burying her loved ones and images of the "Katkoppie" that haunted her everywhere she went...(To be continued)