Bosadi
R240.00
Naledi is a woman unravelling slowly, painfully, purposefully. Once full of promise, her life has shrunk into the claustrophobic walls of a home that no longer feels safe, with a husband whose love has curdled into something dark and dangerous. Between Instagrammable scones, lockdown picnics and a nursery that remains heartbreakingly empty, Naledi wages a quiet war against erasure of her name, her dreams, her body and her sanity.
Aunty, the quiet force in the shadows of Naledi’s crumbling marriage, carries her own scars. A Zimbabwean domestic worker with a fierce devotion to the children she left behind, Aunty watches, waits and bears witness. Between the two women, a fragile sisterhood grows – tender, complicated and not without its betrayals.
Told in alternating voices, Bosadi is a devastating exploration of gender, grief, immigration, violence and the impossible expectations that swallow Black women whole.
| Weight | 032 kg |
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| Dimensions | 212 × 136 × 22 mm |
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Kopano Matlwa won the 2006/2007 European Union Award for her first novel, Coconut, which went on to become a bestseller and a classic South African novel, and subsequently jointly won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010. Her successive novels, Spilt Milk and Period Pain, were also published to great acclaim, with Period Pain shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Between them her novels have been translated to close to a dozen languages. Her latest novel, Bosadi, will be published late 2025. When she is not writing, Kopano works as a public health physician and is passionate about ensuring all people, especially the most disadvantaged, have a fair shot at living a healthy and fulfilling life. She holds a medical degree from the University of Cape Town, a Master’s in Global Health Science and DPhil (PhD) in Population Health, both from Oxford University, where she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Kopano lives in Johannesburg with her husband and three children. |
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9781431436385 |
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