Rachel Zadok
Auteur de Gem Squash Tokoloshe
A propos de l'auteur
Å’uvres de Rachel Zadok
Water: New Short Story Fiction from Africa: An Anthology from Short Story Day Africa (2015) — Directeur de publication — 21 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1972
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- South Africa
- Lieux de résidence
- Johannesburg, South Africa
London, England, UK - Études
- City University, London
- Professions
- graphic designer
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Statistiques
- Å’uvres
- 4
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 179
- Popularité
- #120,383
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 3
The back cover promised a forward-leap in time during the story and I found myself desperate for it to happen, in the hope that the presumably-unreliable narrator would become a bit more reliable with age. Unfortunately not - you have to wait for the very very end to be filled in on what actually happened. If asked to make a guess at the halfway stage, I would have guessed right, but I was glad to find that when it was all wrapped up I understood what the book had sought to convey - even going back and re-reading (and understanding) the weird first bit. Having feared that I would struggle through and still be none the wiser I was grateful for that much.
Maybe it's the state of affairs that has the white characters moaning about their miserable lives in a country where they have appropriated all the advantages that makes me dislike this sort of book, but anyway, just not my cup of tea.… (plus d'informations)