With passion, intelligence, and rare moral insight, Elleke Boehmer traces the scars left on the psyche by the tortuous histories of the South. —J. M. Coetzee
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The delicate intersection between the personal and the political has seldom been so skilfully explored; readable, tangible and haunting. —Naomi Wolf
Elleke Boehmer brings to her stories two qualities that all too often are mutually exclusive: the lucidity of her intelligence and the passion of her engagement. —André Brink