Who Killed Piet Barol?

A haunting, gloriously imagined novel by the acclaimed author of History of a Pleasure Seeker (“a classic” — The Washington Post ), set in early twentieth-century colonial Cape Town, and a forest full of witch doctors, stingless bees, and hungry leopards. It is 1914. Germany has just declared war on France. Piet Barol was a tutor before he came to South Africa, his wife, Stacey, an opera singer. In Cape Town they are living the high life, impersonating French aristocrats—but their lies are catch