Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780821419625)

Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbingride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow-microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche. Everythingis there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people's lives, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner-city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong, and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.

Author: Phaswane Mpe
ISBN-10: 0821419625
ISBN-13: 9780821419625
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2011
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2011
Booklist 04/15/2011 pg. 25