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Nelson Mandela
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Sabotage and Terrorism Acts
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Product details
- ISBN 9781988298993
- Weight: 295g
- Dimensions: 138 x 202mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2022
- Publisher: Freehand Books
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction of 2022
“Wan is a masterpiece. This beautiful, painterly, sublime, and sonically exquisite novel by Dawn Promislow is a work of utter genius.” – Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of All the Broken Things
Narrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel.
Written in gorgeous and spare prose, this exquisite debut novel grapples with questions of complicity and guilt, of privilege, and of the immeasurable value of art and of life.
Dawn Promislow was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has lived in Toronto since 1987. Her collection Jewels and Other Stories was published by Mawenzi House in 2010. Wan is her first novel.
