BOOKS

Tunnel

Novel
2023
First published in South Africa by Karavan Press

PUBLISHER’S BLURB:

One evening in early autumn, ten people drive into a tunnel through the Cape mountains – and find themselves trapped.

As their limited supplies dwindle, what do they do? Where can they go? What will they find?

Tunnel burrows deep into the psychologies and coping strategies that connect and disconnect these protagonists in a dark, tense and compelling human drama.

An urgent new novel, told through many eyes; a journey – terrific and mystical – through despair, memory, and love.

REVIEWS:

“Nick Mulgrew is a generational talent: the kind of prolific, multi-talented thinker and writer who constantly finds new ways to explore complex questions. Never humourless, always astute, Mulgrew has taken the punchiness and to-the-point, exacting requirements of the short story and successfully fleshed out his visions. Whip-smart, not-always-fast-paced and very satisfying. A terrific novel, this.” – News24

“Hellish, elegiac. Nick Mulgrew’s panoptic vision plays with the idea of inversion, and asks deeply unsettling questions. The product of his unsparing but also loving eye. ★★★★★” – Sunday Times