Introducing
Lunch at The Grill Room, Kelvin Grove
Tuesday 4th December 2018 at 12 noon for 12h30
How fabulous that Cape Town’s favourite son, Pieter Dirk Uys will be with us to introduce his new book The Echo of Noise – A Memoir of Then and Now.
“PDU un-powdered. No props, no false eyelashes, no high heels, no security blankets.”
This poignant and intimate memoir, revealing the person behind the persona, is both moving and hilarious. Pieter-Dirk Uys has published two previous memoirs: Elections and Erections (2002), focusing on AIDS, and Between the Devil and the Deep (2005), focusing on his theatre career. This time, he recalls his childhood and family, his forbidding and musically driven father, his brilliant but disturbed mother, his sister the child prodigy, and Sannie Abader, the woman who worked in the Uys household “Sonskyn” in Homestead Way, Pinelands, a second mother to Uys. Also featuring his Afrikaner matriarch “Paarlse ouma” and his strudel baking German Oma, his friendship with Sophia Loren, his invention of Evita Bezuidenhout, and the joys, and sorrows of his remarkable life.
