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Winner of the South African M-Net Literary Prize (English category). "Anne Landsman's glittering, shimmering new novel is a tour de force. . . . Elation and pain, anxiety and exuberance, and the uneven beat of living are all caught in language as silky and fluid as music."--Roxana Robinson "Like Joyce or William Gass or John Edgar Wideman, Anne Landsman fashions a sensual web of memory and desire, rescuing a world at the brink of extinction through the power of her lyricism."--Stewart O'Nan "An elegy for a lost father and a beloved world on the point of disappearing. Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fire and passion."--J. M. Coetzee "A fierce elegy, a daughter's imaginary inhabitation of the memory of her dying father . . . an adventure in language. . . . It makes art of a life."--Louis Menand Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to her father's hospital bed in South Africa....Pages of The Rowing Lesson :