Summary
"Gritty and revealing, Ntshanga's debut novel offers a brazen portrait of present-day South Africa. This is an eye-opening, ambitious novel."--blishers Weekly Full description
Summary: |
"Gritty and revealing, Ntshanga's debut novel offers a brazen portrait of present-day South Africa. This is an eye-opening, ambitious novel."--blishers Weekly |
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Physical Description: |
161 p. |
ISBN: |
9781937512439 1937512436 |
Author Notes: |
Masande Ntshanga is the author of the novels The Reactive and Triangulum . He is the winner of the Betty Trask Award in 2018, the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He received a Fulbright Award, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review , Chimurenga , VICE , n + 1 , and Rolling Stone Magazine . His debut novel, The Reactive , was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature and a finalist for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. He was born in East London, South Africa, in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. |