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AFRICAN AUTHORS

The Comrade’s Wife explores love, power and resilience in modern South Africa

Barbara Boswell’s novel tells the gripping love story of a middle-aged black woman in modern-day South Africa

  • Rodney Ghobril
6 min read
Boswell’s ability to sing about and paint pain on paper is a graceful sight for teary eyes.
BARBARA BOSWELL

On our Lists the week: Louisa Mvemve, Barbara Boswell and Made in America

In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches.

  • Arts Desk
3 min read
Hate and history: Barbara Boswell’s novel Grace is an examination of domestic violence
BARBARA BOSWELL

Of pain(t)ful pasts and parents

‘Grace’ explores the imbalance of concealing and confronting as well as inherited histories and the complex ways they influence the future

  • Sarah Smit
6 min read