<em>Parrot and Olivier in America</em> is a reflection on the restlessness of post-revolutionary societies, writes <em>Jane Rosenthal</em>.
Andrea Levy’s <em>The Long Song</em> is not for the fainthearted, but is filled with anger, strength and beauty.
<em>The Last Summer</em> is a very pleasing novel; for all its apparent artlessness, it remains in the mind long after one has put it down.
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/ 26 February 2010
Etienne van Heerden needs no introduction; as a novelist he is honoured both at home and internationally.
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/ 12 February 2010
Macaulay Vogel, presumably of Scottish and Dutch descent, is the dull-as-ditchwater protagonist of this sadly tedious novel.
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/ 11 December 2009
Jane Rosenthal looks back at a year of lives captured — or not — on the page in a series of autobiographies.
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/ 6 November 2009
JM Coetzee latest ‘novel’ presents a portrait of a vulnerable man who recognises his inability to establish close relationships.
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/ 23 October 2009
Crime is central to South African life, and to its genre fiction. Three local thrillers had Jane Rosenthal riffling and reflecting.
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/ 8 September 2009
Reif Larsen’s first novel is an impressive piece of work that deserves a special place on your bookshelf.
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/ 6 September 2009
Jane Rosenthal finds liberation, hope and thoughtfulness in three accounts of traumatic childhoods.