NOT ENOUGH: Assembly_Book Review
Let me first cast my controversial colours on the mast: This novella starts brilliantly with acute powers of observation and psychological insight. But the story fizzles towards the end. I think the writer
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.
The Literature of Unfulfilled Hopes
The Manbooker Prize has long been coming for Damon Galgut since 2003 when his book, The Good Doctor, was shortlisted. In 2010 I certainly thought his shortlisted book, In A Strange Room, should
The Wanderers_Book Review
‘This is the voice of contemporary South African fiction’—Joanne Ruth Davis reviews Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s new novel The WanderersMphuthumi Ntabeni’s The Wanderers is a novel that indicates a storyteller in love
The Promise: Book Review
I came to this book with preconceived ideas of reading something written in sparse and controlled emotional intensity, the usual things I adore about Damon Galgut writing style I first discovered in books
DISTRACTIONS
History imposed itself on my generation. I had to take my place in the waiting line on the threshold of the black years. Our generation suffers from delusions of grandeur, like thinking you
My Favourite Reads of 2021 So Far
There are books I read because, well, we're told are unmissable. I usually copout in more than half of them and don't finish for one reason or the other.