Reactive
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A01=Masande Ntshanga
addiction
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anti-retroviral drugs
Author_Masande Ntshanga
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Betty Trask award
Cape town
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coming of age
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friendship
HIV
Language_English
literary fiction
masculinity
murder
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politics
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rebellion
social discrimination
softlaunch
South Africa
substance abuse
Triangulum
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9781909762596
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In a city that has lost its shimmer, Lindanathi and his two friends Ruan and Cecelia sell illegal pharmaceuticals while chasing their next high. Lindanathi, deeply troubled by his hand in his brother's death, has turned his back on his family, until a message from home reminds him of a promise he made years before. When a puzzling masked man enters their lives, Lindanathi is faced with a decision: continue his life in Cape Town, or return to his family and to all he has left behind.
Rendered in lyrical, bright prose and set in a not-so-new South Africa, The Reactive is a poignant, life-affirming story about secrets, memories and the redemption that comes from facing what haunts us most.
Masanda Ntsganga is the winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review, Chimurenga, VICE and n + 1. He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine.
