This Life
Karel Schoeman鈥檚 Afrikaans novel, This Life, translated by Else Silke, falls into a genre maybe only noticed by the type of reader who tends toward Wittgenstein-type family resemblances. The essential resemblance is an elderly narrator, usually alone鈥攐r with one other unnamed, usually voiceless, person鈥攔ecollecting ...
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Latest Review: "This Life" by Karel Schoeman
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by P. T. Smith on Karel Schoeman’s This Life, translated by Else Silke, and out from Archipelago Books. Here’s the beginning of Patrick’s review: Karel Schoeman鈥檚 Afrikaans novel, This Life, translated by Else Silke, falls into a genre maybe only noticed ...
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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
In the beginning of The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Afrikaans author Wilma Stockenstr枚m, the narrator, a former slave, walks on the path from the hollow trunk of the baobab tree in which she dwells to a water source that she shares with animals. As she collects her water using two 鈥済ifts鈥 (a clay pot and an ostrich ...
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Latest Review: "The Expedition to the Baobab Tree" by Wilma Stockenstr枚m
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is by Christopher Iacono on Wilma Stockenstr枚m’s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree, forthcoming in April from Archipelago Books. Chris is a writer, copy editor, and proofreader from Methuen, MA; he also runs the Good Coffee Book Blog, and has a new coffee mug that aptly ...
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Agaat [Why This Book Should Win the BTBA]
Similar to years past, we鈥檙e going to be featuring each of the 25 titles on the BTBA Fiction Longlist over the next month plus, but in contrast to previous editions, this year we鈥檙e going to try an experiment and frame all write-ups as 鈥渨hy this book should win.鈥 Some of these entries will be absurd, some more ...
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