Born and bred into the tawny magnificence of Africa, Saul would fight to save the vanishing world of his inheritance. Home of the wild elephants and the fiercely independent families of woodcutters, the Knysna Forest is under threat from the exploitative greed of the timber merchants, and the ruthless plundering of the ivory hunters. Saul Barnard is a man with a self imposed mission u to halt the wanton destruction. For years he has protected the forest from intruders, finding a strange mystical kinship with the spirit of Old Foot, the indomitable and majestic elephant. Then when the word goes round that Old Foot is on the rampage, Saul is propelled towards a terrible confrontation that will change his future, for ever.
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Lyrical, complex and compelling
10 Nov 1999
By J. Pugh
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I brought back two copies of this book from South Africa, and have urged it upon many friends. Everyone says it is one of the most beautiful pieces they have read in years. The reader becomes enmeshed in more "circles" than than you will ever know. You will understand more about elephants and people who love forest and animals than you ever thought possible.
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A great circle
20 Sep 1999
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As a German-speaking student I absolutely enjoyed the English-written book. It`s astonishing how Dalene Matthee was able to link so many people from different social origin into one community. But it`s far more surprising in which way the characters deal with the forest and Old Foot, which show to them, what they're on the world for.
People are here in order to help one another, else life will get unconfortable for everyone. Everything one does or avoids to do will once turn back in a circle and affect this person's life. Circles show to us, that we are dependent from one another in order to manage our life. They are a help as well as a hint toward our future action.
Circles don't happen but make happen. Saul doesn't want to follow his circle, but he has to as destiny wants him to return to the forest. It's Old Foot who made him return there. It was also him how brought Kate and Saul together and therefore closed a circle which seemed impossible at the beginning of their relationship.
After I had put down the book I observed my life from a different point of view - and got aware of the many circles which have closed in my life and are up to close in future.
It's amazing how this complex fact of life can be written in such an enjoyable and deep language as Dalene Matthee did in her book.
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10 April 2006
By Mr. Alex R. Wilson
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Coming from South Africa I have been lucky enough to read all of this very gifted authors work in her native tongue but re reading circles in english just hit home once again how gripping her story telling is in any language. You feel the pain, the love, the hate all in one that the character has for the forest he was raised in. And the characters stay with you long after the book has been put down. If you liked this book trying reading Fielas child the only other book in english and if you understand afrikaans a must read is Toorbos (i think it was translated but not sure) the last book the author wrote about the Knysna forest before she died.
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