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NOW AVAILABLE HERE BOOKS ON DEMAND FROM PAPERIGHT The Thin Line – Arja Salafranca LONGLISTED FOR THE 2012 WOLE SOYINKA PRIZE A collection of short stories from one of South Africa’s most promising young writers. The stories in Arja Salafranca’s first collection hook the reader from the first, and reel you in on that thin line. You will be haunted by the carefully drawn characters: by Corinna trapped in her huge, uncomfortable teenage body, by Cleo in love with a married man after all these years alone, and by poor skinny Mark, as he sees his lover slowly teeter away from him. Salafranca is an accom- plished, award-winning writer, and this long-await- ed collection is a box of jewels. “Searingly honest, sometimes painfully so, for both writer and reader, these stories will pop up in your head to haunt you long after you’ve turned the last page.” – Kate Turkington AVAILABLE FOR (licence fee + printing charges) MORE GREAT FICTION AVAILABLE HERE: DOGS IN THE SUN G.D. Nyamndi DOGS IN THE SUN Whiplash – Tracey Farren The Hairdresser of Harare – Tendai Huchu Absent: The English Teacher – John Eppel Dogs in the Sun – G. D. Nyamndi FOLLOW US! fb.com/paperight @paperight blog.paperight.com
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The Thin L ine – Arja Salafranca
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2012 WOLE SOYINKA PRIZE
A collection of short stories from one of South Africa’s most promising young writers. The stories in Arja Salafranca’s first collection hook the reader from the first, and reel you in on that thin line.
You will be haunted by the carefully drawn characters: by Corinna trapped in her huge, uncomfortable teenage body, by Cleo in love with a married man after all these years alone, and by poor skinny Mark, as he sees his lover slowly teeter away from him. Salafranca is an accom-plished, award-winning writer, and this long-await-ed collection is a box of jewels.
“Searingly honest, sometimes painfully so, for both writer and reader, these stories will pop up in your head to haunt you long after you’ve turned the last page.” – Kate Turkington
AVAILABLE FOR
(licence fee + printing charges)
MORE GREAT FICTION AVAILABLE HERE:
DOGS IN
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This compelling narrative pits the legacies of two men in the village of Nwemba. Winjala the Crude, yardman to the English surveyor Pete Harrington, kills the latter’s favourite animal, the big monkey called Stirrup, and runs to his village. Sama Gakoh, washerman to Harrington, also returns home when his services are terminated for age reasons. Both hold clashing views of the white man. They die shortly after their return but their sons pick up and sustain their confl icting philosophies. The drama culminates in the fi shing contest where the village chief, Ndelu, takes an unprecedented decision charged with meaning and wisdom. The action is given piquancy by a strong undercurrent of human passion that fl ies in the face, so to speak, of artifi ces that divide and alienate. We are dealing here with a profound allegory that brings the classical stereotypes into pointed – and hopefully fi nal – disrepute.
G.D. Nyamndi is a critic, novelist and essayist of some repute. He is the author of Babi Yar Symphony, a novel, Tussles: Collected Plays, and of the highly acclaimed political treatise, Whether Losing Whether Winning. Dogs in the Sun is his second novel. He teaches language and literature at the University of Buea in Cameroon, where he is also Head of the Department of English. In 2004 he ran for the offi ce of President of his country and left quite an impression.
Whiplash – Tracey Farren The Hairdresser of Harare – Tendai Huchu
Absent: The English Teacher – John Eppel
Dogs in the Sun – G. D. Nyamndi
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