A Change of TongueRandom House, 2003 - 376 pages In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey toward each other, particularly when the space and places form which we depart are - at least on the surface - so vastly different? Ranging freely and often wittily across many terrains, this brave book by one of South Africa's foremost writers and poets provides a unique and compelling discourse on living creatively in Africa today |
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Page 34
... eyes . How does she write the blue ? How does she write the boy ? Her life has begun . chapter two He sits behind her . He leans over her to point out where her maths equation has gone wrong . He lisps slightly . His thin wrist . His ...
... eyes . How does she write the blue ? How does she write the boy ? Her life has begun . chapter two He sits behind her . He leans over her to point out where her maths equation has gone wrong . He lisps slightly . His thin wrist . His ...
Page 137
... eyes riveted like washers to its knobkierie head . Nearby zebras are grazing – their tails swishing across the soapy clefts between their thighs . But of them all , you love the giraffe the most . For its big soft eyes , its clumsiness ...
... eyes riveted like washers to its knobkierie head . Nearby zebras are grazing – their tails swishing across the soapy clefts between their thighs . But of them all , you love the giraffe the most . For its big soft eyes , its clumsiness ...
Page 255
... eye of language , ' I say . She laughs , ' To the language of the eye . " The menu is a spectacular enough reason to bring me here , ' I say . ' Still , I'm curi- ous about the second reason . ' But her eyes have fastened somewhere ...
... eye of language , ' I say . She laughs , ' To the language of the eye . " The menu is a spectacular enough reason to bring me here , ' I say . ' Still , I'm curi- ous about the second reason . ' But her eyes have fastened somewhere ...
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