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| A Basket of Leaves |
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R195.00
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Geoff Wisner has traversed the vast African continent and produced a book that is the quintessential first reader's guide to the books that capture the spirit of the continent.
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| A Fold in the Map |
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R125.00
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A Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one’s native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father’s final painful journey.
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| A is for Ancestors |
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R150.00
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A is for Ancestors is the fourth collection of works from the Caine prize for African Writing. The 2003 winner was Yvonne Adhiambo-Owuor from Kenya with her story titled Weight of Whispers.
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| Absent: An English Teacher |
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R150.00
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When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, 'his pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato.'
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| African Psycho |
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R165.00
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African Psycho concerns a would-be serial killer, Gregoire Nabakobomayo, and the spiritual relationship he has developed with his phantom mentor.
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| All is Fish |
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R165.00
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Three remarkable characters try, in their own ways, to make sense of the world and their relationship to each other. Inextricably linked by fate, birth and the difficult but enriching bonds of love.
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| Banquet at Brabazan |
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R125.00
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In Banquet at Brabazan, Patricia Schonstein takes us to the heart of Cape Town’s violent inner city, creating a cornucopia of events featuring superb food, romance, a cappella, an angel, Shakespearean drama, reflections on South Africa’s war in Angola, dr
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| Beginnings of a Dream |
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R140.00
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"...Rapola is a true fabulist whose stories go beyond the documentary realism of most of South African fiction to a hyper-realistic plane of African orature." -Zakes Mda
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| Bitches' Brew |
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R165.00
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Bra Zakes, a former amateur musician, bootlegger, extortionist, mercenary and killer of great repute, lies dying in his luxurious villa hidden away in the undulating hills of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
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| Black Petals |
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R165.00
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Unassuming archivist Macaulay Vogel examines a recently discovered cache of old police archives, when all of a sudden he comes upon a surveillance file about himself. It’s a terrible shock: he doesn’t recognise this person at all. This is a story about So
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| Blood's Mist |
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R165.00
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(/Kaunu) fell asleep…only to find himself caught up in a frightening dream. Mist was swirling all around him: thick mist, cold and threatening – !Khwa’s mist. Then cries and screams echoed out of the dense, white blanket. Swirling, smoking, the mist turne
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| Breaking the Silence: Stories from the Other(ed) Woman |
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R99.00
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This, the fifth highly successful annual POWA Breaking the Silence collection, contains the three categories of poetry, short stories and personal essays. They describe the experience of living a life that defies prescribed boundaries, a life that deliber
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| Chaos Theory of the Heart |
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R125.00
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In the kaleidoscope that is Lionel Abrahams, we find poet and wit, lover and critic, a voice speaking to us - especially to poets - with an inspirational clarity.
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| Coconut |
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R125.00
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European Union Literary Award Winner 2006
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| Counting Sleeping Beauties |
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R165.00
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Spanning the pogrom years in Lithuania and the 1950s South Africa, Frankel weaves a delicate tale of despair and loss, of love and attachment and of place. She evokes the post-war years in South Africa in heartbreaking detail, and traces the relationships
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| Death in the New Republic |
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R165.00
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Meet Jerome Michael Nossel. Known as Nossel to many, and as Comrade Golfer to those who know his history. Gutsy, passionate, vulnerbale, smart - and in trouble.
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| Discovering Home |
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R155.00
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Discovering Home is the third collection of stories from the Caine Prize for African Writing and includes works by writers from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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| End |
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R175.00
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This novel breaks new ground in the relatively unexplored territory of the South African post-modern novel, where the characters talk to the narrator about their uncertain destiny.
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| Flying to Disneyland |
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R125.00
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Fat and over forty, Ethne is not happy. In a flat above, thin and over forty, Derek is frightened. Mortimer comes into their lives with panache and pathos, and spins fantasies for them through which they discover surprising strengths within themselves.
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| Foolish Delusions |
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R150.00
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Foolish Delusions is an adventure. Taking seriously the idea that writing can transform your life, the narrative works as a double helix.
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| Gardening in the Dark |
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R125.00
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Gardening in the Dark begins by evoking a childhood in South Africa under apartheid; it ends with the author as a father evoking his own children and life in France.
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| Glass Jars Among Trees |
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R165.00
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This is anthology in its true sense: of poetry, short fiction, essays, comedy, stories in the form of mock movie reviews and film scripts, diary entries, reportage, song lyrics and even opera.
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| How We Buried Puso |
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R165.00
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Returning home to bury his brother after seven years abroad, the narrator recalls their life with a grandmother and with an adopted sister and stuttering friend, both come to escape the predatory history of a particular corner of Africa.
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| In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot |
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R165.00
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In Tangier we Killed the Blue Parrot is a novel set in Morocco in the 1940s and weaves a story around the well-known writers, Paul and Jane Bowles. Paul was a composer and author of The Sheltering Sky, and Jane was the author of Two Serious Ladies.
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| In the Country of the Heart |
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R150.00
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Here is a new way to visit the heart of South Africa. This handsome volume contains a collection of love poetry by as varied a group of poets as has ever been found in a volume of poetry.
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| JAMBULA TREE AND OTHER SHORT STORIES |
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R150.00
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JambulaTree and other short stories the Caine prize for African writing 8th Annual collection
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| Jungfrau |
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R155.00
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Mary Watson from South Africa won the seventh Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, for Jungfrau, from Moss (Kwela Books, 2004).
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| Karma Suture |
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R145.00
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Sue Carey is a driven, twenty-something doctor struggling to preserve her sanity, sobriety and humanity in the corridors of one of Cape Town's biggest public hospitals.
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| Kitchen Casualties |
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R165.00
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An astonishing novel by the respected South African artist, Willemien de Villiers, that deals with the ties that bind and divide families. Kitchen Casualties traces the lives of four generations of women, and the effect that a terrible secret has on them.
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| Looking for Io |
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R165.00
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But just who, or what, is being sought? Is it the mysterious otherworldly Io, mute save for her innate understanding of another language beyond the spoken word, or is it an aspect of the lost self?
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