A South African academic returns to her homeland in this novel by the award-winning author of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town--"an extraordinary writer" (Toni Morrison). Winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, Zo Wicomb is an essential voice of the South African diaspora, hailed by fellow writers--such as Toni Morrison and J. M. Coetzee, among others--and by reviewers as "a writer of rare brilliance" (The Scotsman)...