Zoë Wicomb. New Press (Perseus, dist.), $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59558-962-0
Mercia Murray, a 52-year-old English teacher living in Glasgow, has recently been abandoned by her partner of two decades. Distracted from her work and daydreaming about her family back in South Africa, Mercia returns to her hometown of Kliprand,...
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Zoe Wicomb, Author . New Press $24.95 (189p) ISBN 978-1-59558-457-1
South African–born Wicomb's second collection subtly portrays the shifting relations among family, friends and servants in a transformed South Africa. “Friends and Goffels†renders the disruption in the friendship of Dot and Julie, who were...
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Zoe Wicomb, Author, Dorothy Driver, Afterword by Feminist Press $19.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-55861-251-8
A fabulous family tree branches backward into South African history and myth in Wicomb's second novel (after You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town). David Dirkse, somewhat shamefacedly, has left his wife and kids in Cape Town to search for his roots in...
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Zoe Wicomb. Yale Univ, $35 (368p) ISBN 978-0-300-22617-1
Wicomb, a South African novelist (David’s Story), short story writer, and literary and cultural critic, assembles some of her best previously published essays, spanning three decades of a brilliant career. Part one includes insightful essays about...
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