Fathers and Fugitives

Title: Fathers and Fugitives Author: S J Naudé ISBN: 9798889660392 Publisher: Europa Editions Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New Fiction 1618190 Publisher Description: A debut literary page-turner from a new South African voice about fatherhood and family, loyalty and betrayal, inheritance and belonging. Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay man with no relationships outside of sexual ones, he can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly, senile father, Daniel nonetheless returns to South Africa to care for him during his final months. Following his father's death, Daniel learns of an unusual clause in the old man's will: he will only inherit his half of his father's co