Denis Hirson to Read at the Labia
South African writer and poet Denis Hirson will read from his 1986 novel, The House Next Door to Africa (David Philip/New Africa Books) at Cape Town’s Labia Theatre on Wednesday, 2 August, at 6 p.m.
Clarke’s Bookshop will be on hand with a selection of Hirson’s books for sale and signing. He is also the author of two memoirs, I Remember King Kong (The Boxer) and We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way (both Jacana titles).
RSVP to Morgan Vesty by 28 July: morgan@newafricabooks.co.za, (021) 674 4136.
From the reviewers:
The house next door to Africa is an utterly honest, powerfully emotional, excitingly visual account of a white child’s experience of growing up in South Africa. It is brilliantly observed, with the smallest visual detail often throwing a whole scene into a new and rewardingly perceptual relief; it is often wickedly funny, particularly in the observation of the rituals of white adolescence.
- Michael Wade, Southern African Review of Books, Summer 1988
- More information on Denis Hirson: NewWritingPartnership.org.uk.
