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