Zoe Wicomb

• Mar-1987
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• Feb-2000
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In this searing novel -- praised by Toni Morrison as “seductive, brilliant, and precious” -- Zoë Wicomb chronicles a woman’s lifelong struggle with identity in apartheid-era South Africa. The daughter of “Coloured” parents in rural South A...

• Jul-2002
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A powerful post-apartheid novel and winner of South Africa’s M-Net Literary Award, hailed by J.M. Coetzee as “a tremendous achievement.”   South Africa, 1991: Nelson Mandela is freed from prison, the African National Congress is now legal,...

• Jan-2008
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“In her ambitious third novel, Wicomb explores South Africa’s history through a woman’s attempt to answer questions surrounding her past” (The New Yorker).   Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Windham Campbell Prize winner Zo...

• Apr-2009
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These short stories from the award-winning South African author “combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth” (J. M. Coetzee).   Zoë Wicomb’s debut short story collection, You Can’t Get...

• Mar-2014
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A South African academic returns to her homeland in this novel by the award-winning author of You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town -- “an extraordinary writer” (Toni Morrison).   Winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, Zoë Wicomb is a...

• Nov-2020
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A New York Times Top Historical Fiction Pick of 2020A stunningly original new novel exploring race, truth in authorship, and the legacy of past exploitation, from the Windham-Campbell lifetime achievement award winnerWhen Zoëml; Wicomb bur...