![]() ![]() The last time Silas Ali encountered Lieutenant Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silas’s wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husband’s participation in Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. But when Lurie seduces one of his students, he sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter his complacency and leave him utterly disgraced.ĭangor, Acmat. Though his position at the university has been reduced, he teaches his classes dutifully and while age has diminished his attractiveness, weekly visits to a prostitute satisfy his sexual needs. He lives within his financial and emotional means. Lurie believes he has created a comfortable, if somewhat passionless, life for himself. ![]() Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. Giving up her self-imposed exile is, at first, a resignation to Kristien, but gradually she learns that the country of her birth is changing towards the better.Ĭoetzee, J. Before she dies, she wishes to tell Kristien the story of their Afrikaner family, a task which grandmother and granddaughter find very important. Kristien, the narrator, is a white academic who goes back to South Africa to visit her grandmother after an attack by black youths on the old lady which leaves her tied to bed. Zinzi is attempting to repay the financial debt she owes her drug dealer by charging people for her special skill of finding lost objects, as well as making use of her writing abilities by drafting 419 fraud emails.īrink, Andre. ![]() She lives in the Johannesburg suburb of Hillbrow, which is nicknamed “Zoo City” in the novel for its large population of animalled people, refugees and the dispossessed. The novel’s chief protagonist, Zinzi December, is a former journalist and recovering drug addict who was “animalled” to a sloth after getting her brother killed. Zoo City is a science fiction novel set in an alternate version of the South African city of Johannesburg, in which people who have committed a crime are magically attached to an animal familiar – those who receive such punishment are said to be “animalled”. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2010. Using his family as a microcosm of the corroding society at large, Marnus tells a troubling tale of a childhood corrupted, of unexpected sexual defilements, and of an innocence gone astray.īeukes, Lauren. Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, The Smell of Apples is a haunting story narrated by eleven-year-old Marnus Erasmus, who records the social turmoil and racial oppression that are destroying his own land. 1994-present: a selected annotated bibliographyīehr, Mark. The list includes both prominent and up and coming South African writers. The following compilation of contemporary South African fiction focuses on a post-apartheid experience from a variety of perspectives. The South African literary canons have primarily focused on the apartheid experience. Contributions to a rich literary tradition which includes authors like Nadine Gordimer, Alan Paton, and J. Over the many decades there have been tremendous contributions to South African literature. ![]()
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