You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
7 best books like You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (Zoë Wicomb): Cry, the Beloved Country, Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa, Gem Squash Tokoloshe, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, Back Roads, Titan, The Woman Next Door
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the beloved country, for the...
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
| Author | Antjie Krog |
| ISBN | 0812931297 |
Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating...
| Author | Rachel Zadok |
| ISBN | 0330441191 |
"She just sat there hardly moving, staring at the drive. Black marks formed under her eyes where her lashes bled their waxy coating onto her skin. Her rouged cheeks were smudged. Mother looked like she was melting in the heat."
Faith leads an isolated existence on her family's drought stricken...
| Author | Phaswane Mpe |
| ISBN | 0869809954 |
This is a very short novel, a novella really, only 124 pages. It is written as a narrative from a second person, to the main protagonist, who is already dead as the book is written.
Hillbrow is a very violent suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa, and the title of the book is very ironic, as there...
| Author | Tawni O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0451212452 |
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.
With his mother in jail for killing his...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0765343150 |
Hugo Award-winning editor, author, scientist, and journalist, Ben Bova is a modern master of near-future science fiction and a passionate advocate of manned space exploration. For more than a decade, Bova has been chronicling humanity's struggles to colonize our solar system in a series of interconnected...
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility which they prune with a zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty.
But...
