October

A South African academic returns to her homeland in this novel by the award-winning author of You Can''t Get Lost in Cape Town—"an extraordinary writer" (Toni Morrison). Winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, Zoë Wicomb is an essential voice of the South African diaspora, hailed by fellow writers—such as Toni Morrison and J. M. Coetzee, among others—and by reviewers as "a writer of rare ...