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Circles in a Forest (novel)
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Wikipedia article
'Circles in a Forest' is a novel by Dalene Matthee, originally written and published in Afrikaans as 'Kringe in 'n Bos' in 1984. It is the first book in her series of four "forest novels", set in the Knysna forest. The other three "forest novels" are 'Fiela se Kind' ('Fielas Child') published in 1985, 'Moerbeibos' ('The Mulberry Forest') published in 1987 and 'Toorbos' ('Dreamforest', later translated as 'Karoelinas Forest') published in 2003. 'Circles in a Forest' became a best-seller and has been translated into English, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Icelandic, Spanish, Hebrew, German, Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Norwegian. The novel is a coming-of-age story about an Afrikaans woodcutter named Saul Barnard, set in and around the South African town of Knysna in the nineteenth century, focusing on the impact of a gold rush on the Outeniqua forest, its Afrikaans and Khoekhoe residents and the Knysna elephants.
Film
The story was made into an English film Circles in a Forest in 1989.
References
Category:20th-century South African novels
Category:1984 novels
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