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Winner of the Sharjah Int’l Book Fair Best International Fiction Award 2022Hans van Rooyen is a former police general raised by two women who survived the 1899 South African War. He finds himself being cared for in an old age home by the daughter of liberation struggle activists. At age 80, he carries with him the memories of crimes he committed as an officer under the apartheid government. Having eluded the public confessions at the Truth and...

Em meio ao apartheid, nos guetos da África do Sul, mãe e filha precisam sobreviver em um ambiente marcado pela pobreza e pelo medo da aids. Este romance traz uma história de superação de cruéis adversidades, mas também conta a trajetória de libertação pessoal de uma mulher orgulhosa e de uma menina que se torna adulta cedo demais. Diante de uma sociedade machista que tenta anular suas existências, Zola e Mvelo lutam para que suas vozes sejam o...

Thandiwe lives by her own rules. She shamelessly sells her body on the South African streets of Yeoville and views her job as no different from those of young black graduates who take up affirmative action posts as perpetual juniors under soul-destroying mentors. Thandiwe's searing views on the post-apartheid corporate world become public when she is approached by Kwena, a young film-maker who is interested in telling the stories of prostitute...

The terrible thing that steals 14-year-old Mvelo's song leads to startling revelations and a hopeful outcome. Great book club read.

Life wasn't always this hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo, who lives with her mother, Zola in the shacks on the margins of Mkhumbane township. There were good times when they lived with Sipho, Zola's lawyer boyfriend. But when the beautiful and mysterious Nonceba Hlathi arrives, Zola has to make a choice. She also has her pride. Now their social grants have been discontinued: the one for Mvelo being underage reared by a 31-year-old single mothe...