Playing in the Light

"In her ambitious third novel, Wicomb explores South Africa''s history through a woman''s attempt to answer questions surrounding her past" (The New Yorker). Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Windham Campbell Prize winner Zoë Wicomb''s celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the ...