Verdict: stick
Karina Magdalena Szczurek gives a rather sharp stick to Rosemund Handler’s Tsamma Season saying that it was, in fact, a relief to come to the end of the book.
At the end of the 19th century, during his many sea voyages, Alf Johannsen comes to southern Africa and decides to make the Kalahari his permanent home. On his way to settle in the desert, he meets Deirdre, a teacher from England. The two marry in Cape Town, and Alf persuades his young wife to give the dry and dusty landscape of the Kalahari a try.
In spite of being warned that “he was not only misinformed but deluded to believe he could survive in the Kalahari, let alone farm sheep or anything else”, Alf persists. With the help of a few indigenous inhabitants, against all odds, the couple succeed in making the desert their home. At least for a while. Rosemund J Handler’s Tsamma Season is their story as told by Emma, their eldest child.
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