K. Sello Duiker
K. Sello Duiker was a South African novelist, who worked as a screenwriter and in advertising. His debut novel Thirteen Cents won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book African region. His work explores themes of race and identity in South Africa.
Thirteen cents
Thirteen Cents is an extraordinary and unsparing account of a coming of age in Cape Town. Reminiscent of some of the greatest child narrators in literature, Azure's voice will stay with the reader long after this short novel is finished. Based on personal experiences. K. Sello Duiker was, before his death in 2005, widely regarded as South Africa¿s most promising young writer. Thirteen Cents, originally published in 2000, was his first novel and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book Award (Africa Region) and has gone on to become a modern South African classic. This is a new edition of a Duiker¿s explosive debut.
R 315.00
The Quiet Violence of Dreams
Tshepo, a young student at Rhodes, has a difficult time keeping up with his own strange mind. He is absorbed in making sense of a traumatic past in a violent country and so when he finds himself at the Valkenberg mental facility it is perhaps not entirely due to “cannabis-induced psychosis”. How is he to bring together the shattered pieces of his life? In the shady subculture of male prostitution Tshepo begins to find answers for the first time. Discovering first his true sexuality, and then that sexuality is only a key to the greater realms of a hidden, mythical humanity, Tshepo can finally tap into the ancient powers that are his birthright.
R 440.00