Books written by Zoë Wicomb
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David's Story
Thomas claps his hands delightedly. See, this stuff is in your blood, man, comes out of our ancestor's soil. It's our heritage; it's your rightful heritage, your Griqua birthright. He shuts the box and slips it into his pocket when a ...
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Still Life: A Novel
Thomas is prepared to beat his chest and shout to the world mea culpa, prepared for the woman to represent him on her own terms. But what he has not been prepared for is the infectious vitriol of questions. He sees his own boy Hinza, ...
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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
Thomas G. Karis and Gail M. Gerhart, introduction to Challenge and Violence, 1953–1990, vol. 3, From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882–1964, ed. Thomas G. Karis and Gwendolyn M. Carter ...
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October: A Novel
“Poem in October” by Dylan Thomas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright 1945 by the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas, first published in Poetry. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
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Playing in the Light: A Novel
Running a 1990s Cape Town travel agency in spite of her private hatred of traveling, Marion shares a complex relationship with an African employee and eschews national politics, until the exposures of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer."
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Still Life
"Wicomb's majestic new novel Still Life juggles with our perception of time and reality as Wicomb tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, whose only legacy is in South ...
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Playing in the Light: A Novel
Running a 1990s Cape Town travel agency in spite of her private hatred of traveling, Marion shares a complex relationship with an African employee and eschews national politics, until the exposures of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
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The One That Got Away: Short Stories: Easyread Large Edition
The twelve stories in this collection, most previously unpublished, explore a spectrum of human relationships: marriage, friendship, family ties, neighbors, and relations between those who serve and are served.
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Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013
Also included are a reflection on Nelson Mandela and a revealing interview with Wicomb. In these essays, written between 1990 and 2013, Wicomb offers insight on her nation’s history, policies, and people.
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Race, Nation, Translation
But conspicuously unnamed as race may be, the mixing of races functions as hermeneutic key to the translation of culture. The colouredness of Melanie will be morphologically repeated in the mixed-race child to whom Lucy will give birth, ...
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October: A Novel
With this pitch-perfect story, the “writer of rare brilliance” (The Scotsman) Zoë Wicomb—who received one of the first Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes for lifetime achievement—stands to claim her rightful place ...
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David's Story
David's Story
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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
"You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town" is among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of Coloured citizens in apartheid-era South Africa, whose mixed heritage traps them, as Bharati Mukherjee wrote in the New York Times, in the ...
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The One that Got Away: Short Stories
The fourteen stories in this collection explore a range of human relationships: marriage, friendship, family ties, and relations with those who serve us.