Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times
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Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times by Kopano Matlwa
Compelling and heart-wrenching, EVENING PRIMROSE, explores issues of race, poverty and gender in post-apartheid South Africa through the eyes of a junior doctor.
Heart-wrenching * Grazia *
Tackles more than many books twice its length. . The pages are raw. This is the best kind of political novel . . . [its] turns of emotion are virtuosic. The novel dances from slapstick to stabbing pain to tentative hope. Matlwa's voice is one we need. * Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You *
Slices straight to the heart, deft and clean. * Laura Jane Williams, author of Becoming *
Harrowing and vital . . . I read it in one sitting. * London Review Bookshop Summer Picks *
Distinctive and engaging * AnOther *
Tackles more than many books twice its length. . The pages are raw. This is the best kind of political novel . . . [its] turns of emotion are virtuosic. The novel dances from slapstick to stabbing pain to tentative hope. Matlwa's voice is one we need. * Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You *
Slices straight to the heart, deft and clean. * Laura Jane Williams, author of Becoming *
Harrowing and vital . . . I read it in one sitting. * London Review Bookshop Summer Picks *
Distinctive and engaging * AnOther *
Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a South African author whose bestselling first novel, Coconut , written when she was 21 years old, went on to in the European Union Literary Award and was joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Her second novel, Spilt Milk made the long list for the 2011 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Matlwa is also winner of Aspen Ideas Award for medical innovation and is currently reading for a DPhil in Population Health at the University of Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. Her third novel Evening Primrose will be published by Sceptre in 2017. @kopanomabaso
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| ISBN 13 | 9781473662285 |
| ISBN 10 | 1473662281 |
| Title | Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times |
| Author | Kopano Matlwa |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2018-04-19 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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