Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – to be launched in April. Watch out for the first pages of each of the 24 stories, which will be run in hourly sequence every day.
It’s 3 AM and Sarah Britten takes us to Sydney, Australia:
Home Away: 3 AM (Sarah Britten)
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Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – to be launched in April. Watch out for the first pages of each of the 24 stories, which will be run in hourly sequence every day.
It’s 2 AM and Richard de Nooy has us between Liberec and Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Czech Republic and Amsterdam:
Home Away: 2 AM (Richard de Nooy)
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Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – to be launched in April. Watch out for the first pages of each of the 24 stories, which will be run in hourly sequence every day.
It’s 1 AM and SA Partridge takes us to Triolet, Mauritius:
Home Away: 1 AM (SA Partridge)
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Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – to be launched in April. Watch out for the first pages of each of the 24 stories, which will be run in hourly sequence every day.
We start with midnight, Nairobi and Zukiswa Wanner:
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Home Away: Midnight (Zukiswa Wanner)
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Save the date! The Louis Greenberg-edited “book of cities and hours”, Home Away, will be launched on Thursday, April 15 at The Book Lounge in Cape Town.
This unique and captivating collection is a snapshot of South African writing today: emigrant and immigrant South Africans, living at home and away.
Here’s the brilliant line-up of contributors, the hours they’ve been assigned to and the cities they write about:
Midnight: Zukiswa Wanner (Nairobi)
1 am: S.A. Partridge (Triolet)
2 am: Richard de Nooy (Amsterdam/Rokytnice nad Yizerou)
3 am: Sarah Britten (Sydney)
4 am: Naomi Nkealah (Mainz)
5 am: Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (Havana)
6 am: Colleen Higgs (Kampala)
7 am: Moky Makura (Lagos)
8 am: Sarah Lotz (Maun)
9 am: Louis Greenberg (Ushuaia)
10 am: Fiona Snyckers (Oxford)
11 am: Lauren Beukes (Tokyo)
noon: Ted Botha (Los Angeles)
1 pm: Liesl Jobson (Victoria / the air)
2 pm: Jassy Mackenzie (Moscow)
3 pm: Makhosazana Xaba (Dakar)
4 pm: Jo-Anne Richards (Patmos)
5 pm: Henrietta Rose-Innes (Chanchan)
6 pm: Kathryn White (London)
7 pm: Karina Magdalena Szczurek (Salzburg)
8 pm: Ivan Vladislavic (Oklahoma City)
9 pm: Helen Moffett (Fairbanks)
10 pm: Rustum Kozain (Royaumont)
11pm: Victoria Burrows (Hong Kong)
Many of the authors will be on-hand at the launch to read from their selections. We look forward to seeing you there!
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It’s official! The much-anticipated compilation Home Away will be published by Zebra Press next month. Watch out for a special series related to the book on the Zebra Press blog starting next week – it will be “24″ with a twist!
Being South African isn’t as black and white as it used to be. People from all over the world make South Africa their home, while South Africans have more geographic freedom than ever before. This unique and captivating collection is a snapshot of South African writing today: emigrant and immigrant South Africans, living at home and away.
In Home Away, twenty-four chapters by twenty-four writers, set in cities all around the world, make up one global day, a mosaic reflecting on the nature of home. As the provocative stories in this collaboration suggest, often it’s when we are far away from home that we see it most clearly.
About the authors
The collaborators on Home Away are: Lauren Beukes, Ted Botha, Sarah Britten, Victoria Burrows, Richard de Nooy, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Louis Greenberg, Colleen Higgs, Liesl Jobson, Rustum Kozain, Sarah Lotz, Jassy Mackenzie, Moky Makura, Helen Moffett, Naomi Nkealah, SA Partridge, Jo-Anne Richards, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Fiona Snyckers, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, Ivan Vladislavić, Zukiswa Wanner, Kathryn White and Makhosazana Xaba.
Louis Greenberg is a freelance writer, editor and web designer. His first novel is the well-received The Beggars’ Signwriters, and he has published several stories, photographs and poems. He has lived in Johannesburg all his life, and much of his travel is vicarious.
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Shown above: all 24 contributors
Zebra Press and Boekehuis are delighted to invite you to the Johannesburg launch of Touch: Stories of Contact by South African Writers, edited by Karina Magdalena Szczurek.
The launch will feature readings from contributors Ivan Vladislavic, André Brink and Maureen Isaacson.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Touch: Stories of Contact, a collection of short stories by twenty-two of South Africa’s best writers commissioned by Karina Magdalena Szczurek. The collection brings us work from such established luminaries as André Brink, Nadine Gordimer, Damon Galgut and Ivan Vladislavić, as well as exciting new voices such as Alistair Morgan and Julia Smuts Louw. Whether poignant or light-hearted, fictional or autobiographical, these innovative stories remind us of the preciousness of touch and are a testimony to the creative talents of South Africa’s writers.
All the authors have agreed to donate their royalties to the Treatment Action Campaign. Every copy sold therefore contributes to the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Each week until the book’s launch, Zebra Press brings you a new excerpt from Touch:
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from “The Crossing” by Damon Galgut
The morning after the argument, she woke early and knew she wouldn’t sleep again. Andrew was curled away from her, very much on his side of the bed. She got dressed and stood for a long moment, looking at the bony shape of his shoulders, the dark outline of his head. Then she went out and down the steps to the beach.
It was just after dawn; nobody else was around. High up above, the roofs of the town caught the light, but down at the shore everything was in shadow. The tide was far out, leaving a cryptic calligraphy of swirl-marks and debris on the sand.
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Zebra Press and the Book Lounge invite you to the second launch of Touch: Stories of Contact by South African Writers by edited by Karina Magdalena Szczurek, on Thursday 18 June at the Book Lounge.
We’re thrilled that many of the contributors, including Lauren Beukes, Andre Brink, Willemien Brummer, Imraan Coovadia, Damon Galgut, Michiel Heyns, Byron Loker and Alex Smith, will be there to read extracts from their stories.
It’s going to be one of those special Book Lounge evenings, so please be sure to RSVP:
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Touch: Stories of Contact, a collection of short stories by twenty-two of South Africa’s best writers commissioned by Karina Magdalena Szczurek. The collection brings us work from such established luminaries as André Brink, Nadine Gordimer, Damon Galgut and Ivan Vladislavić, as well as exciting new voices such as Alistair Morgan and Julia Smuts Louw. Whether poignant or light-hearted, fictional or autobiographical, these innovative stories remind us of the preciousness of touch and are a testimony to the creative talents of South Africa’s writers.
All the authors have agreed to donate their royalties to the Treatment Action Campaign. Every copy sold therefore contributes to the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Each week until the book’s launch, Zebra Press brings you a new excerpt from Touch:
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from “Sheila” by Jonny Steinberg
When I first heard news about you, Sheila, I was locking my bicycle to the bicycle stand at Esporta Gym off Woodstock Road. It was a little before lunchtime. From my pocket an SMS hailed me, and it was from Lomin, and he said: ‘Sheila out of surgery and doing fine.’ I snapped my cellphone shut, slung my bag over my shoulder, and strode into the gym as if there were spurs on my heels and my bike were a tethered steed.
It was Friday, about noon, a time when I share the swimming pool with middle-aged ladies of leisure. They are commuter-belt housewives; their husbands left for the City early in the morning to earn a lot of money, their children are grown and out in the world, and they, meanwhile, join me in the swimming pool and stand there talking to one another very loudly and with paramount confidence, without ever actually swimming, it seems.
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