Henrietta Rose-Innes. (2015). Nineveh: A Novel. The Unnamed Press.

Henrietta Rose-Innes. 2015. Nineveh: A Novel. The Unnamed Press.

Henrietta Rose-Innes, Nineveh: A Novel. The Unnamed Press, 2015.

Henrietta Rose-Innes. Nineveh: A Novel. The Unnamed Press, 2015.

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Katya Grubbs is Cape Town's only ethical pest removal specialist. She expertly wrangles every manner of wild critter, creature or beast with the help of her unwitting nephew, Toby. When she is hired to remove the exotic beetles that have overrun Nineveh, a new luxury housing development on the coast, Katya finds that bugs aren't the only unwelcome creatures hiding in the new (but inhabited) apartments. As she investigates further, it becomes clear that Nineveh is fast becoming an environmental, not to mention architectural, blunder. With marshlands encroaching on its borders, and the nearby seaside more menace than attraction, Katya becomes immersed in the world of Nineveh's few residents—the mysterious caretakers and scavenger crews that survive in its shadow. It is only when her estranged father—a professional exterminator fallen on hard times—reappears in her life, that Nineveh's deeper secrets are exposed.

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Katya Grubbs is Cape Town's only ethical pest removal specialist. She expertly wrangles every manner of wild critter, creature or beast with the help of her unwitting nephew, Toby. When she is hired to remove the exotic beetles that have overrun Nineveh, a new luxury housing development on the coast, Katya finds that bugs aren't the only unwelcome creatures hiding in the new (but inhabited) apartments. As she investigates further, it becomes clear that Nineveh is fast becoming an environmental, not to mention architectural, blunder. With marshlands encroaching on its borders, and the nearby seaside more menace than attraction, Katya becomes immersed in the world of Nineveh's few residents—the mysterious caretakers and scavenger crews that survive in its shadow. It is only when her estranged father—a professional exterminator fallen on hard times—reappears in her life, that Nineveh's deeper secrets are exposed.

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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "White South African writer Rose-Innes makes her American debut with a nimble, intriguing novel about a second-generation Cape Town exterminator- er, ethical pest-removal specialist... A persuasive, witty exploration of a tough and unconventional young woman- and a consistently lively account of the entanglements of cultural politics, class, and architecture in contemporary South Africa."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "South African writer Rose-Innes creates a thoughtful, textured narrative... Surreal in style and atmosphere, yet grounded in the reality of place and the ever-present threat of insects, this is a quiet but deep look at the ecosystems we create for ourselves as well as those we can't escape."
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   • source: J.M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace
   • content: "Henrietta Rose-Innes writes an admirably taut, clean prose... a welcome addition to the new South African literature."
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   • source: Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
   • content: "A gripping, thrilling allegory of a troubled nation, Nineveh is executed with wit, panache, precision and something that I can only call wounded love for the country the author calls her home."
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   • source: Ivan Vladislavic, author of Double Negative
   • content: "Rose-Innes is a pleasure to read- inventive, intelligent and entertaining. In Nineveh, she has created a densely layered, totally absorbing tragicomedy for our anxious time and place."
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   • source: Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter
   • content: "I love Henrietta Rose-Innes' work. With plotlines that are wittily subversive and language that is whippet-lean, it is long overdue for discovery by a wider readership."
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   • source: Sunday Independent
   • content: "The multidimensional novel recalls Italo Calvino's beautiful, challenging and descriptive novel, Invisible Cities ... Such delicacy is evident in Nineveh."
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   • source: FMR Book Choice
   • content: "Visitors to Cape Town wanting a memento of the city to take home will do well to put this accomplished tragicomedy in their suitcases. Nineveh is beautiful, eccentric and thoroughly readable."
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   • source: Mail & Guardian
   • content: "Relentless and perfect."
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    • source: Cape Times
    • content: "What a delightful novel Rose-Innes has worked out of her offbeat material ... even the caterpillars and metallic longhorn beetles that creep through the text shine with iridescent toughness and gleam with humour."
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    • source: Africa in Words
    • content: "In Rose-Innes' latest novel, the gently wry, elegantly written Nineveh, the completion of a contemporary luxury housing development in the area outside of Cape Town is impeded by the confusing excesses of its location, geography and environment. It's not just (beautiful) beetles that swarm through Nineveh; subterranean, buried and otherwise unknown forces do, too, challenging far more than the control methods of Katya Grubbs' humane 'Painless Pest Relocations' business - but also those of her sense of home and history, and of what our place might be in a transforming world."
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    • source: Africa is a Country
    • content: "A strange and apocalyptic tale about a swarm of insects which overruns a luxury housing development outside Cape Town, causing mayhem and destruction. A pest remover - named Katya Grubs - is called in but finds she has much more on her hands than just the bugs."
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      October 24, 2016
      South African writer Rose-Innes creates a thoughtful, textured narrative focused on how people interact with their neighbors, the natural world, and the critters that encroach on us all. Katya Grubbs deals in painless pest relocations: no matter the pest, she promises to get rid of it. Instead of exterminating the creatures, she takes them into the wilderness and releases them. It isn't glamorous or high-paying work, but she knows what she's doing and it's a family business. Given the chance at her biggest task yet—clearing out troublesome beetles from Nineveh, a new luxury housing complex on the South African coast—Katya's attempts don't quite go according to plan. The growing cracks in the walls of her house and the demolition of a tiny park where she used to release insects represent the state of her life. Focused closely on Katya, the narrative is a fragile ecosystem of its own, condensed into her increasingly claustrophobic mind and echoing the environs around her. Katya must find a way to exist with her past and the mixed memories of her father, whose footsteps she followed in despite their estranged relationship. Surreal in style and atmosphere, yet grounded in the reality of place and the ever-present threat of insects, this is a quiet but deep look at the ecosystems we create for ourselves as well as those we can't escape.

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