222 mm x 146 mm, softcover, 192 pages RRP: R180, ISBN 978-1-4152-0094-0 Publication date: July 2009, Category: Fiction Description When the caravan of the Mobile Church of the Holistic Christ rolls into a sleepy town on a hot spring day, all hell breaks loose in Pamela Oberem’s novel The Lazarus Funeral Parlour. Dominee Donges, undisputed moral authority of Nylsdorp, faces a direct challenge from the charismatic Reverend Grant, with his fire-and-brimstone sermons and his miracle cures. As the Dominee’s church runs empty and the Reverend’s tent fills up, a new disaster strikes: the Lazarus Funeral Parlour. Here, the Reverend Grant raises the stakes by raising the dead. Corpses disappear as if resurrected, and business booms. But enough is enough! The Dominee smells a rat, and when his investigations reveal more smelly business, he takes action. From The Lazarus Funeral Parlour, page 7 Dominee Donges, with a new book under his arm, sneaked off to his study and shut the door firmly behind him, hoping to keep the Koeksisters at bay. Being a man of the cloth didn’t necessarily make one more patient with fellow human beings, no matter how good their intentions or how vulnerable their hearts. And, after all, he was an ordinary mortal, not a saint. It was a pity to be inside on a spring day in Limpopo, but a new book was such a delicious pleasure and solitude such a rare commodity in the parsonage. To read on Read Vivien Horler’s review in the Cape Argus. Read an article in the Citizen. Read a review in The Weekender. Read a review in the Cape Times here. To buy this book www.exclusivebooks.com www.kalahari.net home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za