Set in India and South Africa, The Wedding joins Ismet Nassin, a clerk of modest prospects from Bombay, and Khateja, a village beauty he marries on the very day he spies her from the window of his train. Matrimony happens fast, love lags behind. Khat...
Hardly a conventional family history, Green-Eyed Thieves tells the story of the fortunes of a family of crooks -- the green-eyed thieves of the title. The matriarch of this unusual family is a university lecturer and an accomplished shoplifter, an...
In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country’s transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the div...
Longlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 Ilube Nommo Award for Best NovelFinalist for the 2019 Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science-Fiction NovelAward-winning South African novelist Imraan Coovadia tells t...