The Shallows - Ingrid Winterbach

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'The Shallows' by Ingrid Winterbach follows Niek Steyn, an artist whose relationship has recently broken down and who is struggling to regain his sense of direction. His personal difficulties unfold alongside other, increasingly strange storylines, drawing him into a world of artists, outsiders and unsettling events in Cape Town. Winterbach uses these intertwined narratives to explore the role of art in a troubled society, while the characters are repeatedly confronted by the persistence of the past and the uncertainty of the present. Darkly comic and richly layered, the novel combines psychological unease, social observation and Winterbach’s distinctive sense of the absurd.