Van Heerden Etienne. Kikuyu

Publication details not specified. — 356 p.Van Heerden Etienne. Kikuyu, novel (in Dutch)Etienne van Heerden, born 3 December 1954, is a South African author.
During the 1980s he was member of a group of Afrikaans writers secretly meeting the banned ANC of Mandela and exiled writers at the (now famous) Victoria Falls Writers’ Conference, held in Zimbabwe.
Van Heerden is seen as member of a generation of Afrikaans artists who contributed significantly to opening up the Afrikaner psyche to change.
Despite at times at odds with the apartheid government, van Heerden never left South Africa permanently, and now teaches at the University of Cape Town, where he is the Hofmeyr Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures, and chairs the Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies Section.
Van Heerden has published two books of poetry, two books of short stories, a collection of cabaret songs, theoretical and academic work, and novels. His activity spans a wide range — a syndicated columnist in the major three Afrikaans dailies, published countrywide in South Africa, his own program on satellite television, and founder-editorship of one of the few South African internet startups.
The novel Kikuyu, or Kikoejoe, was published in 1996.Fabian Latsky, wereldreiziger, roept zijn herinneringen op aan de zomer van 1960, een zomer waarin alle zomers uit zijn jeugd samenvloeien. Gasten arriveren in de vakantieboerderij. Het jongetje Fabian loopt tussen hen door en bespiedt het exentrieke gedrag van de veteraan, wanneer die behangen met oorlogsmedailles ‘s nachts zijn parades houdt, en van zijn stoere tante Geertruida (zeg maar Geert) die elke zomer terugkeert maar de Karoo en Fabian leert dat de wereld groter is dan Soebatsfontein.