Great South African fiction
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Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate …
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Age of Iron
by J. M. Coetzee
As an elderly woman's health deteriorates, so does the condition of her country, South Africa.
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Triomf
by Marlene van Niekerk
Written with a wicked wit, "Triomf's" microcosmic view of South Africa on the brink of disintegration illuminates a crystalline vision of the hypocrisies and hopelessness …
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This Life
by Karel Schoeman
On her deathbed, a woman recalls her life of loneliness and of isolation, where she was but a witness to the events of her family. …
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Dreambirds
by Rob Nixon
Explores the societies that have pinned hopes for wealth on the feathers and meat of the ostrich, from South Africa's Karoo Desert to the modern …
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Karoo Boy
by Troy Blacklaws
His family shattered by a freak accident that ended the life of his twin brother, Douglas moves with his mother to a tiny backwater town …