Three Hindrances To Freedom: Life In Shadow-Land Of Semi-Recognition: Curiosity Meaning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798518691797)

One of the unique gems that are the best-read and saved. This book with the wonderful prose with subtle uses of wordplay shall bring you empathy with the characters, each struggling to make his or her way amid an environment in which justice is a murky business.
This book is a collection of three short stories "giving remarkably vivid and imaginative expression, in a contemporary setting" of the three hindrances to freedom: greed, ill-will and delusion. The setting is South Africa and, far from being bitter or nihilistic, the stories are shot through with an affection for humanity - its cultures and its frailties. It "bears testament to the subtlety of Pillay's understanding of philosophy, the slippery cleft between normality/madness and the complexity of ordinary lives in an extraordinary society." Nowhere does Kriben tell us what to think, but he sets us on a path to make our own inquiry - or just to enjoy three first-rate, truly original short stories.