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The Two Wells

By: Johann Wentzel
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Twenty years after Ouma Gretchen’s death, her favourite grandson Craig Venter is clearing old papers on his smallholding outside Okahandja when he stumbles on the few belongings of hers that were never thrown out: two letters, a faded hand-drawn map, a rusted knife blade, and, hidden in a snuff box, a rough diamond.

Widowed himself and newly vulnerable to the claims of memory, Craig follows the trail south to Mariental and Maltahöhe, into old farm country where stories have survived in fragments. What he slowly reconstructs is darker and more extraordinary than family legend ever allowed: in the mid-1930s, Gretchen and her two brothers, Karel and Heinrich, robbed a post office bag of diamonds and fled west toward Lüderitz. Namibia answered with a snake-bitten ox, a burning wagon, a ruined German station, slaughter, fever, and two wells into which Gretchen buried not only the diamonds, but the bodies of the brothers she loved.

As Craig draws closer to the truth, the question becomes more dangerous than the mystery itself. Are the wells to be opened and history dragged into the light, or is the truest act of love to understand what was buried there and leave it mercifully at rest?

Moving between present-day Namibia and the hard southern country of the 1930s, The Two Wells is a suspenseful, deeply human novel about grief, secrecy, family inheritance, and the moral difference between recovery and desecration. Action & Adventure Africa
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