Tracey Farren has recently published her third novel, The Book of Malachi. Novel follows Farren’s first two novels, Whiplash about a sex worker on a heart breaking redemption journey was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award and won a White Ribbon award for its role in the battle against woman and child abuse, and Snake, a psychological thriller about a little farm girl who watches a charming stranger destroy her family.
Her new novel, The Book of Malachi (Kwela) is a work of speculative fiction about an inhumane medical project taking place on an oil rig in the deep sea. Malachi Dakwaa is mute and utterly disconnected from human beings when he gets an extraordinary job offer. In exchange for six months as warder on a top-secret organ farming project, Frasier Pharmaceuticals will graft a new tongue for him. Malachi takes the deal. Far out to sea, he finds himself among warlords and mass murderers of the kind who maimed him and killed his family. But are the prisoners as evil as Frasier says? Do they deserve their fate? It is now on the shelves at all good book stores in S.A. and available as an Audio Book in the UK and Commonwealth.
