It was with great sadness that the board of PEN South Africa learned of the passing of the remarkable South African publisher, Jonathan Ball, on April 3rd 2021. Jonathan’s storied career- from his first job at Collier-Macmillan, to his launching...
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Karina M. Szczurek’s soul-baring memoirs of her life before, with and after her marriage to André P. Brink details a year of widowhood and a love to last a lifetime. This is the book which shows decisively that Karina is...
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I am Pandarus is a retelling, from a modern perspective, of the story of Troilus and Criseyde, as previously told by Chaucer and Shakespeare. The narrator in Michiel Heyns’ lively iteration is the go-between, Pandarus. But the novel opens in...
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In her accomplished new story collection, Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in Zimbabwe to explore the causes and effects of crime, and to meditate on the nature of justice. Rotten Row represents a leap...
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An isolated farm in rural post-apartheid South Africa is the scene of a suspicious death that fractures a tense community. De Wildt, South Africa. Ouma is a white doctor running her own farm in the rural backwaters. Over eighty years...
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