Playing in the Light A Novel Zoë Wicomb Cheryl Pitout 0889290827890 Books
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By the Windham Campbell Prize winner.
Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Zoë Wicomb's celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee. As Alison McCulloch noted in the New York Times, "Wicomb deftly explores the ghastly soup of racism in all its unglory denial, tradition, habit, stupidity, fear and manages to do so without moralizing or becoming formulaic." Caught in the narrow world of private interests and self-advancement, Marion eschews national politics until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission throws up information that brings into question not only her family's past but her identity and her rightful place in contemporary South African society. "Stylistically nuanced and psychologically astute" (Kirkus), Playing in the Light is as powerful in its depiction of Marion's personal journey as it is in its depiction of South Africa's bizarre, brutal history.
Playing in the Light A Novel Zoë Wicomb Cheryl Pitout 0889290827890 Books
Zoe Wicomb has recreated some characters in this book that will always stay with me. She has a rare talent for reproducing voice, from the alienated Afrikaner, Marion, to a random woman on a train in the UK, and of course, her main character, the so-called Coloured, Brenda. Her characters are alive, and they make sense. Her subject is race - what else could it be, but she does it with an unusual subtlety and skill. She looks in depth at the consequences of the separation of racial groups in the early years of apartheid, focusing on a family who choose to 'go for white', and she shows how moving away from their families and old lives brings nothing but fear, lies and denial of everything that matters. She shows how relative poverty is, but there are no cliches here. It is one of the best books on South Africa I have read. Some of her sentences have a cadence and poetry that remind me of J.M.Coetzee, but unlike Coetzee, she portrays ordinary human relationships in great emotional depth.My only disappointment was with the abrupt and I thought unconvincing ending - it was as though she had just had enough.
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Playing in the Light A Novel Zoë Wicomb Cheryl Pitout 0889290827890 Books Reviews
The book was well written and had beautiful descriptive scenes of Tuscany during the 1940s. The Light in the Ruins described the quandary of occupied Italians during World War II.
The flashbacks between the 1940s and 1955 was well done. The intertwining of both Christina's family and Serafina was very clever.
A fascinating novel regarding the damage done by keeping family secrets.
Life isn't always what you think it is. Wish Zoe had been able to bet beyond herself and see each day for the gift it is.
The complexities of race and family history are the background to this short novel which gives great insight into post Apartheid South Africa. Wicomb also spikes the book beautifully with bits of Afrikaans and local culture.
Well written, good vocabulary. Learned things about South Africa that I did not know . An excellent story and very well researched.
Zoe Wicomb has recreated some characters in this book that will always stay with me. She has a rare talent for reproducing voice, from the alienated Afrikaner, Marion, to a random woman on a train in the UK, and of course, her main character, the so-called Coloured, Brenda. Her characters are alive, and they make sense. Her subject is race - what else could it be, but she does it with an unusual subtlety and skill. She looks in depth at the consequences of the separation of racial groups in the early years of apartheid, focusing on a family who choose to 'go for white', and she shows how moving away from their families and old lives brings nothing but fear, lies and denial of everything that matters. She shows how relative poverty is, but there are no cliches here. It is one of the best books on South Africa I have read. Some of her sentences have a cadence and poetry that remind me of J.M.Coetzee, but unlike Coetzee, she portrays ordinary human relationships in great emotional depth.
My only disappointment was with the abrupt and I thought unconvincing ending - it was as though she had just had enough.
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