Heart of Redness

A South African man returns to a divided village in pursuit of lust, redemption, and identity in this “humorous, mythic, and complicated novel” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Having left for America during apartheid, Camugu has now returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his “famous lust” to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth cen...