Jane Rosenthal
latest news & developments‘Homeland’ is a thriller, but one with depth
Karin Brynard’s novel questions what outsiders have brought to the Khomani Bushmen, including those who profess to support them.
Dangarembga builds on her two earlier books
Here the protagonist is in her 30s, and she again narrates her story herself with an interesting distancing to reflect the divisions in her being.
An expat’s return explores intimacy
The novel deals with intimacy and trust, and finding one’s place in the world.
Mending severed histories with returning shades
This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life
A novel look at diaspora and identity
Academic JU Jacobs explores South African stories that reveal who we are and our journeys here and elsewhere, both physically and psychologically.
Compassion in the tragic quest for a colony
The Compassionate Englishwoman book is a post-retirement project by author Robert Eales about the Boer war.
The Texture of Shadows: Beyond anger and retribution
Moving, memorable novel explores the life of ANC soldiers in exile and their return to SA shortly before Mandela’s release.
Of kleva dreams and integrity
Jane Rosenthal on the urban intelligentsia in new novels from Perfect Hlongwane and Thando Mgqolozana.
A blessing and the fighter’s lace
In a compelling novel and an engaging memoir, Jane Rosenthal finds richly textured accounts of Muslim and Indian experiences in South Africa.
Zakes Mda: The year of the mirror
Jane Rosenthal sculpts dreams and rides quaggas in the exotic kingdom of the sacred gold-plated rhino in Zakes Mda’s "The Sculptors of Mapungubwe".
This broken land has many faces: A review of four books
Jane Rosenthal assesses four novels that cast the country in very different lights.
End of the M-Net affair
The only book prize that celebrates works of ?fiction written in all of our official languages has been suspended.
Comfort is hard to find
A poignant debut novel reflects on life and love in a conservative farming community in the Free State.
A basket of Munro scattered to the winds
Now that Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her previously low profile in South Africa is bound to change.
Harrowing story of an African farm
South African literature has a long tradition of farm novels digging deep into the lives of people on these farms.