The book is set in a time of darkness: power outages and COVID-19.
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The South African novelist messes with the line between fiction and non-fiction.
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The activist and writer has been erased from South Africa’s history - but new academic work seeks to restore his voice.
A statue of the author, Solomon T. Plaatje, in Kimberley, South Africa.
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According to a new book, the friendships among women in the novel reveal its author Sol T. Plaatje’s view of effective political struggle.
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In each of his novels, he explored questions that shifted South Africa’s cultural debates, especially about memory and race.