LEAVING ATOCHA STATION
An American (read US) goes to Madrid on a prestigious poetry grant. There he observes things, like how ridiculous Americans seem abroad with their monolingualism, blinked opinions and false sense of being the
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Mphuthumi Ntabeni is trained in built environment, reads literature, history and philosophy. He lives in Cape Town. He has written two historical novels, The Broken River Tent & The Wanderers.
Read an excerpt from The Wanderers
The Johannesburg Book Review have published an excerpt from my forthcoming novel The Wanderers.
Buy The Broken River Tent
Best purchase you'll make all year
City Press review The Broken River Tent
"A daring new writer"
Mail & Guardian reviews The Broken River Tent
Mending severed histories with returning shades
Africa's Lit Volume 23
Mphuthumi Ntabeni shares with us how his debut novel “The Broken River Tent” was inspired by his need to understand Xhosa history from the perspective of the dispossessed.