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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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
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