The Arabic translation of Kringe in ’n bos (Circles in A Forest) by Dalene Matthee is out now from the Cairo-based Mahrousa Publishing and it is a pleasure to have received copies of this striking edition.

Kringe in ’n bos was originally published in 1984 and is the first of Matthee’s four ‘forest books’ – captivating novels inspired by the Knysna indigenous forest that would go on to sell more than a million copies in Afrikaans, be widely translated, and adapted for stage and screen.