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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town is among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of Coloured” citizens in apartheid-era South Africa, whose mixed heritage traps them, as Bharati Mukherjee wrote in the New York Times, in the racial crucible of their country." Frieda Shenton, the daughter of Coloured parents in rural South Africa, is taught as a child to emulate whites: she is encouraged to learn correct English, to straighten her hair, and to do more than, as her father says, peg out the madam’s washing.”
While still a self-conscious and overweight adolescent, Frieda is sent away from home to be among the first to integrate a prestigious Anglican high school in Cape Town, and finds herself in a city where racial lines are so strictly drawn that it is not possible to step out of one’s place.
At last, Frieda flees to England, only to return more than a decade later to a South Africa now in violent rebellion against apartheid but still, seemingly, without a place for her. It is only as Frieda finds the courage to tell her terrible stories” that she at last begins to create her own place in a world where she has always felt herself an exile.
While still a self-conscious and overweight adolescent, Frieda is sent away from home to be among the first to integrate a prestigious Anglican high school in Cape Town, and finds herself in a city where racial lines are so strictly drawn that it is not possible to step out of one’s place.
At last, Frieda flees to England, only to return more than a decade later to a South Africa now in violent rebellion against apartheid but still, seemingly, without a place for her. It is only as Frieda finds the courage to tell her terrible stories” that she at last begins to create her own place in a world where she has always felt herself an exile.
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Zoe Wicomb was born in 1948 and raised in Namaquland, South Africa. After 20 years voluntary exile, she returned to South Africa in 1991 to teach at the University of the Western Cape. She currently lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
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"[Wicomb's] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . [She] is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography and the simplicity of family stories." New York Times Book Review
"Wicomb is a gifted writer, and her compressed narratives work like brilliant splinters in the mind, suggesting a rich rhythm and shape." Seattle Times
"Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on par with the fabulous reception her white countrymen Nadie Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee have received. She has a bleak but wise perspective on people and on the South African world." Wall Street Journal
"A moving and perceptive exploration of pain, change, and selfhood." The Canberra Times
"Seductive, brilliant, and precious . . . An extraordinary writer." Toni Morrison, author of Beloved
"[Wicomb's] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . [She] is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography and the simplicity of family stories." ―New York Times Book Review
"Wicomb is a gifted writer, and her compressed narratives work like brilliant splinters in the mind, suggesting a rich rhythm and shape." ―Seattle Times
"Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on par with the fabulous reception her white countrymen Nadie Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee have received. She has a bleak but wise perspective on people and on the South African world." ―Wall Street Journal
"A moving and perceptive exploration of pain, change, and selfhood." ―The Canberra Times
"Seductive, brilliant, and precious . . . An extraordinary writer." ―Toni Morrison, author of Beloved
"Wicomb is a gifted writer, and her compressed narratives work like brilliant splinters in the mind, suggesting a rich rhythm and shape." Seattle Times
"Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on par with the fabulous reception her white countrymen Nadie Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee have received. She has a bleak but wise perspective on people and on the South African world." Wall Street Journal
"A moving and perceptive exploration of pain, change, and selfhood." The Canberra Times
"Seductive, brilliant, and precious . . . An extraordinary writer." Toni Morrison, author of Beloved
"[Wicomb's] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . [She] is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography and the simplicity of family stories." ―New York Times Book Review
"Wicomb is a gifted writer, and her compressed narratives work like brilliant splinters in the mind, suggesting a rich rhythm and shape." ―Seattle Times
"Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on par with the fabulous reception her white countrymen Nadie Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee have received. She has a bleak but wise perspective on people and on the South African world." ―Wall Street Journal
"A moving and perceptive exploration of pain, change, and selfhood." ―The Canberra Times
"Seductive, brilliant, and precious . . . An extraordinary writer." ―Toni Morrison, author of Beloved
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