WHAT OTHERS SAY
Reaction to Weeping Waters
‘Weeping Waters is a great, gripping read.’
This crime-thriller is as hot, gritty and as vast as the Karoo countryside which serves as the setting for the story.
Karin Brynard deftly deploys the conventions of crime fiction to illuminate many of the central tropes of post-apartheid life in an eye-catching whodunit.
Anybody wanting to know the status of life in South Africa should read this crime novel – it’s far more than ‘just a crime novel’.
Recognition
Awards for Weeping Waters:
Longlisted for:
Barry Ronge Sunday Times Literary Award 2015
Awards won for the Afrikaans version, Plaasmoord:
University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Literature
Best Debut 2010
University of Stellenbosch Word Fest (WoordFees)
Best Debut (shared) 2010
M-Net Literary Awards
Film Category 2010
2010 Book Seller’s Choice Award
Rapport – Best Debut
ATKV – Best Mystery
M-Net Literary – Best Fiction Afrikaans