{"product_id":"buy-on-that-wave-of-gulls-vernon-r-l-head-conf20250402024","title":"On That Wave of Gulls (Vernon R.L. Head)","description":"\u003ch1\u003e On That Wave of Gulls \u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Author: Vernon R.L. Head \u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e About Book \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Publisher: Jacana Media \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Published date: 2023-05-16 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e isbn:  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e GoodReads Rating: 3.1 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e Condition \u0026amp; Size \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Size: Format B (Medium Format) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book Type: Paperback \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e Condition: As New \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e Summary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n“The only thing that seagulls ever want is the fucking sea.”\n\n\nFrom the bestselling author of The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World comes On That Wave of Gulls. An audacious novel, the tale is told by three characters – an architect, a Khoisan vagrant and a seagull, all of whom recount their lives in Cape Town. \n\nHieronymus Vos is an overweight, white architect who has fallen on hard times. He is married to a beautiful, black British-Caribbean woman. Although he hates the ocean, his practice has, until recently, been doing very well by designing glitzy, millionaires’ mansions on the ASeaboard. Pooi is a homeless man, recently arrived from the Kalahari, with a patchy grip on reality. He thinks he is the moon and wants to teach himself to swim so that he can reach Robben Island and fulfil a promise. The third narrator is Calypso, a female seagull who needs to find a mate and lay an egg to pass on her legacy and her identity. \n\nBy times heartbreaking and thrilling, this unforgettable novel propels the author into the lives of the novel’s three main characters, throwing light on living and being in Cape Town – a Cape Town that is part wilderness, part glamorous high-rise developments, part ocean. Their interactions are at times fleeting, at times profound, and behind them lies the joy, pain and tragedy of living at the southern tip of Africa.\n\nOn That Wave of Gulls is a shrewd and lyrical tour de force by a natural storyteller. The everlasting story of how men and women relate in the closed system of violence.\n\n \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Head, Vernon R. L.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41681624367181,"sku":"CONF20250402024","price":99.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/3856\/4685\/files\/9781431432998_20250321_143913_14e2b6c3-a8d0-407f-ae0e-1f3f52d7248a.jpg?v=1743601005","url":"https:\/\/readmatter.co.za\/products\/buy-on-that-wave-of-gulls-vernon-r-l-head-conf20250402024","provider":"Readmatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}