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Set in a railway camp in Durban in the sixties, the novel introduces the reader to an assortment of unforgettable characters. There are Timus's five sisters and his elder brother - an endless source of information about life; Ouma Makkie, with the insight and uncompromising attitude of the elderly; Joon, the "Stargazer", whose eyes are not fixed on this world; Zane and his sinister, nocturnal bat-hunting expeditions; Gladys, forced to send her baby son Boytjie away when he grows too big for her kaya in the backyard.