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By the Windham Campbell Prize winner
Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Zoe Wicomb s celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee. As Alison McCulloch noted in the New York Times, "Wicomb deftly explores the ghastly soup of racism in all its unglorydenial, tradition, habit, stupidity, fearand manages to do so without moralizing or becoming formulaic."
Caught in the narrow world of...

The 1987 publication of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town won Zoe Wicomb an international readership and wide critical acclaim. As richly imagined and stylistically innovative as Wicomb's debut work, David's Story is a mesmerizing novel, multilayered and multivoiced, at times elegiac, wry, and expansive.

Unfolding in South Africa at the moment of Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1991, the novel explores the life and vision of David Dirkse, part of the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement--a world seldom revealed to outsiders....

The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa

In diesen Kurzgeschichten afrikanischer Autor:innen geht es um das süße Verlangen, die sinnlichen Freuden - und die Liebe mit all ihren Wonnen und Abgründen. Hier löst Frida Kahlo eine Orgie im Küchenschrank aus, es gibt verbotene Liebe unter dem Jambul, Liebschaften und Affären, Dreiecksbeziehungen, heiße Backwaren und Liebeskummer, queeres Dating und Politik in der Liebe ...Eben was mittwochs so ist, und freitags.