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Zebra Crossing

By: Meg Vandermerwe

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Ghost. Ape. Living dead. Young and albino, Chipo has been called many things, but to her mother – Zimbabwe’s most loyal Manchester United supporter – she had always been a gift. On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo and her brother flee to Cape Town, hoping for a better life and to share in the excitement of the greatest sporting event ever to take place in Africa. But the Mother City’s infamous Long Street is a dangerous place for an illegal immigrant and an albino. Soon Chipo is caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme organised by her brother and the terrifying Dr Ongani. Exploiting gamblers’ superstitions about albinism, they plan to make money and get out of the city before rumours of looming xenophobic attacks become a reality. But their scheming has devastating consequences. Set in the underbelly of a pulsating Cape Town, Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing is an arresting debut and a bold, lyrical imagining of what it’s like to live in another person’s skin.

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126

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Simon and Schuster

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1780744315

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9781780744315

This Place I Call Home

Stories

By: Meg Vandermerwe

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Stories

By: Meg Vandermerwe

Stories by South Africa-based Meg Vandermerwe, up and coming young writer, academic, teacher of creative writing.

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African Books Collective

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1920397027

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9781920397029

Zebra Crossing

By: Meg Vandermerwe

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The Woman of the Stone Sea

By: Meg Vandermerwe

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The Woman of the Stone Sea

By: Meg Vandermerwe

The woman Hendrik finds injured on a deserted beach is unlike anything this West Coast fisherman has ever pulled from the ocean. Where her legs should be, there’s a fishtail. Could this be one of the water maidens his wife Rebekkah spoke about before she walked into the sea, never to be seen again? Or is she the fish woman that the old isiXhosa people in the Transkei call ‘mamlambo’? As the strange being takes up residence in Hendrik’s home, nothing is as it seems. Whether he’s dealing with a figment of his grief, or a puzzle that will solve Rebekkah’s disappearance, Hendrik soon realises that the line between the so-called magical and the real is very fine.

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155

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1415210403

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9781415210406

Devil's Ballast

By: Meg Caddy

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Devil's Ballast

By: Meg Caddy

A cutthroat and daring new YA release, featuring one of history’s greatest anti-heroines.

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321

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Text Publishing

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1925774279

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9781925774276

Claiming the City in South African Literature

By: Meg Samuelson

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Claiming the City in South African Literature

By: Meg Samuelson

This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the study of cities of the South. Starting from the claim staked by mining capital in the late nineteenth century and its production of extractive and segregated cities, it surveys over a century of writing in search of counterclaims through which the literature reimagines the city as a place of assembly and attachment. Focusing on how the South African city has been designed to funnel gold into the global economy and to service an enclaved minority, the study looks to the literary city to advance a contrary emphasis on community, conviviality and care. An accessible and informative introduction to literature of the South African city at significant historical junctures, this book will also be of great interest to scholars and students in urban studies and Global South studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000439674

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9781000439670

This Place I Call Home

Stories

By: Meg Vandermerwe

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Stories

By: Meg Vandermerwe

Stories by South Africa-based Meg Vandermerwe, up and coming young writer, academic, teacher of creative writing.

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African Books Collective

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Book's by Meg Vandermerwe

Zebra Crossing

Zebra Crossing

This Place I Call Home

This Place I Call Home

Zebra Crossing

Zebra Crossing

The Woman of the Stone Sea

The Woman of the Stone Sea

Devil's Ballast

Devil's Ballast

Claiming the City in South African Literature

Claiming the City in South African Literature

This Place I Call Home

This Place I Call Home

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