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The chameleon house (Paperback)
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The short story – the perfect fit for modern attention spans - is
finally receiving the attention it deserves. It started in 2013,
when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Lydia
Davis the Man Booker International Prize. In 2014, both the Mail
& Guardian Literary Festival in Johannesburg and the Open Book
Festival in Cape Town featured panel discussions on short stories.
The literary establishment, it seems, has finally caught up with
readers’ hunger for these contained, miniature worlds. Into this
mix comes the fresh, new voice of South African writer Melissa de
Villiers, with her debut collection, The Chameleon House.In her
finely woven collection of stories – spanning South Africa, London
and Singapore – De Villiers deftly probes the ambiguities of
different kinds of love and empathy as she brings a variety of
people closer together in unexpected ways. There’s the not-quite
twenty-year old journalist, with the world open to her but not
knowing what to do with it, who finds herself at the Baviaan’s
Drift Bugle under the watchful eye of an old acquaintance of her
father’s; an older woman with her young lover, caught in
Johannesburg traffic during ‘load shedding’, the new leveller; and
a young boy who finds a painful intimacy with his mother’s
boyfriend through the beatings he receives from him. And then there
are the four friends sharing a house in London, where the only
thing they have in common is that they have all left home. But do
they really know anything about each other? In her powerfully
condensed, poetic style, De Villiers manages to say a lot with few
words. Often it’s what remains unsaid that tells us the real story.
The Chameleon House is a remarkable debut by a voice to keep both
ears open for. The collection demonstrates that no matter where in
the world we find ourselves, our hearts are never far from home.
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