Short description
The title narrates the events in the life of an Afrikaner man living in Yeoville, Johannesburg. After fourteen years in the same job, he seeks release from the boredom of day-to-day existence in Hillbrow's bars and brothels.
Long description
In 2004, the Afrikaans novel Kontrei caused huge controversy - and earned critical acclaim, winning the Jan Rabie-Rapport prize for innovative prose. Now translated into English as Midnight Missionary, this astonishing novel takes the reader on an uncharted journey into the nihilistic world of a sex-mad Afrikaner man who seeks the company of black prostitutes, most of them immigrants from other African countries, in the backstreets and brothels of Johannesburg.
By turns autobiography, social comment and subtle satire, Midnight Missionary provides a gritty and shockingly honest portrait of urban life in post-apartheid South Africa.