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Harry Moto unsettles apartheid's racial categories in a darkly comic story exposing the absurdity and cruelty of official identity.

Literary fiction

A priest's dreamlike journey follows the legend of hidden Boer gold into an unsettling confrontation with South African repression.

Literary fiction

A South African reporter in London finds that exile cannot separate his new relationships from the liberation politics of home.

Literary fiction

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