Home and away
Niq Mhlongo recently launched his new book Way Back Home in his hometown of Soweto. A caustic critique of South Africa’s political elite, its something of a departure for the young novelist who first gained acclaim for his street-smart post-apartheid novels, Dog Eat Dog (2004) and After Tears (2007). We talk to him about home […]
The way back home
There are many ways back home. In South African novelist Niq Mhlongo‘s recently published book, Way Back Home, it’s a journey through public and private space, mourning and memory, tradition and modernity, set in a post Apartheid world haunted by the ghosts of liberation, exile and freedom. In his article by the same name, published […]
The Way Back Home Article
The Way Back Home On the death of a close relative, Niq Mhlongo discovers that regardless of where life, love or circumstance takes you, at the heart of the matter of where you will return is the place from which you came. Where there’s no will, there’s no way to reconcile the dead and the […]