From Vancouver: The Afrikaner 

in audiobook, in German & more!

 Dear Friends, Colleagues & Readers at large,

Here are the latest updates as my post-apartheid novel (& screenplay)The Afrikaner

reaches out to the world.

"A powerful tale of human connection set in the great African wilderness.

Bold, ethnically diverse, visually dramatic."

Enjoy! Arianna Dagnino

The audiobook of The Afrikaner, superbly narrated by Los-Angeles based, South African voice actor Dennis Kleinman, is now available on all the major platforms – Audible, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play.

Dennis did a wonderful job in giving memorable voices to all the characters. I couldn't have found a better narrator to bring Zoe's story to life in its audio version.

Listen to an excerpt from Ch. 1.

 
Buy the audiobook

The German translation has just been published by PalmArtPress (Berlin).

Read a short passage from Die Afrikaanerin translated by Heddi Feilhauer: «Dario schrieb darüber, als er das erste Mal die Kalahari betrat: „Die Muskeln ge- ben nach, der Geist öffnet sich. Die Unermesslichkeit trifft dich wie ein Geschoss. „Unsere“ Zeit ist zerstoben.“ Du und ich, wir können nur noch die Poesie der Wüste teilen, in diesem Augenblick.»

Pics: courtesy of Stefano Gulmanelli and www.wildimagesonline.com

After having completed the screenplay of “Zoe The Afrikaner” as a feature film, with my colleague Dr. Ernest Mathijs at UBC we have now decided to transform it into a 4-hour Tv mini-series.

“A tale of great human connection in the Namibian wilderness."

Watch the book trailer of The Afrikaner

 
Pitch Deck

Upcoming Events

“Journeys into the page: How (imaginary) travelling & movement can inspire and nurture your writing”: this is the topic of the workshop I'll be holding at the online edition of the “Word on the Lake Writers Festival”  (7-9 May, 2021) drawing on my travels across Africa, Europe & beyond.

 
More info

Recordings of Past Events

(Audio)book presentation of The Afrikaner organized by the Dante Soicety of Ottawa. Arianna was joined by Dr. Stefano Gulmanelli, who worked along with her in post-apartheid South Africa & teaches Sociology of Identity & Sociology of Migration at the University of British Columbia. The conversation touched upon what Arianna & Stefano learned from that experience, how Arianna was inspired to write Zoe's story, intercultural relations, the weight of history, science & magic seen through the eyes of an Italian writer & an Italian scholar.

 
Listen to the recording (passcode: FqL7&#Z3)

Book Clubs

My warmest thank you goes to all the readers who discussed The Afrikaner in their book clubs and provided their intriguing interpretations and knowledgeable feedback.

 

Special offer for book clubs!

I am available for online book discussions via Zoom, Skype or other platforms.

Contact me at aridag@me.com!

www.ariannadagnino.com

Readers' Response

Thanks to all those readers who provided their feedback or published a review of The Afrikaner on Goodreads, Amazon or their blogs and social media pages.
You can find a list of reviews, readers' responses and media coverage on the book's website.

Here are excerpts from the latest batch:

"It certainly held my interest and, in that respect, it works as any good work of art ought to. Keep the reader wanting to turn the page has been with us from The Arabian Nights to Margaret Atwood […]

I found Kurt to be the most interesting, most authentic character. His life alone would have made for an interesting novel. He carries within him the curse of apartheid as well as its wounds.”

(Prof. Nigel Thomas, Laval University)

 

"The book is a delight to read. Complex and very pressing contemporary issues, of concern not just in South Africa but in far wider global settings, are raised in ways insisting on intelligent reading and reflection and all interwoven within a dynamic plot in a beautifully written narrative." (Iain Edwards, South African historian)

 

"The Afrikaner is an authentic journey across bold landscapes where time, the meaning of life, and the fragile yet complex nature of the human spirit capture the reader’s inner-self. Stories of love, conflict and discovery are inextricably woven together like..."

(Andrei Rizea, Vancouver)

The book as a gift

 

Give the book as a gift!
Let your friends, family and colleagues travel to distant places and follow Zoe in her desert adventure by gifting them a copy of The Afrikaner.

 

The audiobook is available here.

 

Print signed copies can be purchased directly from the author at a discounted price of 15 CAD (+ postage if needed).

First, send me an email (aridag@me.com) to specify the number of copies and the address for delivery so that I can calculate the postage rates with Canada Post.

 

Print and digital copies are also available from the publisher’s website.

 

 

Support writers & the Creative Arts by

recommending The Afrikaner in print, digital and audiobook format to your

local public library!

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TO KNOW MORE

If you would like to know more about the history of South Africa and of the Afrikaners, please see Hermann Giliomee's The Afrikaners: A Concise History (Tafelberg), Leonard Thompson's A History of South Africa (Yale UP), and the Cambridge History of South Africa edited by Robert Ross et al.

 

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