A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year
"Moving, funny... Here is a man looking back on his life and
country with joy and sorrow."
--John Freeman, "The Boston Globe
"The most acclaimed South African writer of his generation,
Zakes Mda eight novels venture far beyond the conventional
narratives of a people's struggle against apartheid. In this
memoir, he tells of a life that intersects with the politics of his
country--a story that is, at its heart, the classic adventure of an
artist, lover, and bon vivant. Living in exile with his father in
Basutoland (now Lesotho) during the first pangs of his country's
independence, a series of brutal and poignant initiations ushered
him toward the life of a writer--and that of a perpetual outsider.
Through the indignity of Boer racism, the turmoil of the Soweto
uprisings, not to mention three marriages and his eventual
immigration to America, Mda struggled to remain his own man. With
"Sometimes There Is a Void," he shows that independence opened the
way for the stories of individual South Africans in all their
variety.
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