A political satire and a winner at the 1985 Whitbread Prize for Fiction.

In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, South Africa, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by color, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict: 'He's very odd, this Jimfish you've hauled in. If he's white he is not the right sort of white. But if he's black, who can say? We'll wait before we classify him. I'll give his age as 18, and call him...

The classic memoir of growing up in South Africa during the apartheid regime from literary tour de force, Christopher Hope.

The renowned, South African author's reflections on the character of modern tyranny, as exemplified in the person of Robert Mugabe.