Green Lion
Published on 1. January 2025
304 pages
978-1-80533-466-8 (ISBN)
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He sees her form, slipping around every corner, her eye peering from every window, her growl behind the traffic rumble.When a lion at a breeding park mauls an old school friend of his, Con steps in as the keeper of Sekhmet, the last remaining black-maned lioness in the world.In a Cape Town where fences keep people and wildlife apart, park officials and investors fret about their flagship big-cat project. And as Con grows steadily more bonded to his enigmatic charge, and confronts his own dark history, a cult of animal lovers seeks to claim the lioness as its own.
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Henrietta Rose-Innes is from Cape Town but is currently completing a PhD at UEA. She won the Caine Prize for African Writing 2008 and the HSBC / PEN Short Story Prize 2007 and was runner-up in the BBC Short Story Award 2012. Her work is included in the Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) and is published in several languages.
