My Books of the Year
Today’s Sunday Independent features a survey of a few dozen writers’ “books of the year” - mine among them. Here are the links for subscribers:
- Writers’ Books of the Year (Sunday Independent - click on any of the articles marked 2006-12-24)
Only three of the titles I submitted actually made it into print - here’s the full list:
New books (all South African)
Mandela’s Ego by Lewis Nkosi (Fiction, Umuzi). Wicked satire that rivals Nkosi’s first novel, Mating Birds, as a surgical dismemberment of cherished beliefs - pure jazz to read. (Click title for review in Boswestblog.)
Tags: A Fine Balance, Ann Marie Low, Ben Oswest, Chris Hedges, Damon Galgut, Democracy, Dust Bowl Diary, Fred Khumalo, Iris Vaughan, James Thurber, Joan Didion, Lewis Nkosi, Mandelas Ego, Rohinton Mistry, South Africa, South African Literature, Sunday Independent, The Diary of Iris Vaughan, The Follower, The Review, Touch My Blood, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
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