8 Lives Of A Century-Old Trickster

8 Lives Of A Century-Old Trickster (Paperback)

Vendor

Loot

Department

Books

Current price

R 348

Average price

R 272.32

Maximum price seen

R 418

Minimum price seen

R 50

Last price change

R -18

Last indexed

4 July 2025

First added to index

24 November 2023

Description

SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical.

Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, adventure, assumed identities and spying. Stories that take place in WWII Indonesia; in Busan during the Korean war; in cold-war Pyongyang; in China. The stories are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable, that they cannot surely all belong to the same woman. Can they?

As playful and thought-provoking as it is compelling, as brutal and harrowing as it is achingly poignant and tender, this is a novel about love and war, deceit and betrayal, about identity, storytelling and the trickery required for survival.