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"Mda's electric honesty is a live current through his remarkably gorgeous, urgent, poetic, matter-of-fact memoir. But don't get lulled into thinking this is the book of one bravely truthful man's journey into self-expression. Mda has shaken off calcification, identity, ego and walked us "all "into sovereignty and selfhood. Read this, and be prepared to examine your own soul as never before. Speaking for myself, I know it's been a long time since I have been so undone and remade by another person's words." --Alexandra Fuller, author of "Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness"
"Mda's greatest gift is his Dickensian social range, his ability to generate characters from diverse backgrounds, colluding and colliding across the barriers erected to divide them. Mda's gregarious and transfixing memoir, "Sometimes There Is a Void", chronicles the upheavals that have sharpened his skills as a wide-ranging social observer . . . Mda's autobiographical voice strikes a fine balance between outward engagement and inner exploration . . . To his credit, in a deeply unsettled life, he has nurtured this capacity to find within the creative act itself new, reviving forms of homecoming." --Rob Nixon, "The New York Times Book Review "
"A moving, funny, and deeply bawdy book that meanderingly describes the South African writer's coming of age during a period when Nelson Mandela was more well-known for being a lady-killer than a politician, and the Boers of South Africa were boogeymen to young boys all over southern Africa. Into the alphabet soup of political allegiances jumps the young Mda, son of a lawyer--and a lover, not a fighter . . . The alternating warmth and horror of Mda's recollections make "Sometimes There Is a Void'' a strangely gripping book . . . Here is a man looking back on his life and country with joy and sorrow, and all their excessive gestures. He chafes against easy narratives. They were--he was--alive with ideas, growing up at the dawn of South Africa's independence. But they were also alive with so much else: sex and food and booze, family life and music. Lift the lid off this big overstuffed book and all of it - or what feels like all of it - comes tumbling out." --John Freeman, "The Boston Globe"
"Born into a prominent South African activist family, Mda fled to Lesotho at the age of fifteen to join his father, a radical lawyer living in exile. He went on to become one of the most celebrated playwrights and novelists of the post-apartheid era." --"The New Yorker"
"Mda's electric honesty is a live current through his remarkably
"A gregarious and transfixing memoir... Chronicles the upheavals that have sharpened Mda's skills as a wide-ranging social observer." -- Rob Nixon, " The New York Times Book Review""Fascinating... During my five-year stint as Africa bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor, I struggled in vain to find a memoir like this one." --Scott Baldauf, "The Christian Science Monitor""It is easy to become immersed in this memoir... Mda's deeper struggles parallel those of all South Africans seeking identity and freedom."" --Publishers Weekly "(starred review)"Remarkably gorgeous, urgent, poetic... It's been a long time since I have been so undone and remade by another person's words." --Alexandra Fuller, author of "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"
A gregarious and transfixing memoir... Chronicles the upheavals that have sharpened Mda's skills as a wide-ranging social observer. "Rob Nixon, The New York Times Book Review"
Fascinating... During my five-year stint as Africa bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor, I struggled in vain to find a memoir like this one. "Scott Baldauf, The Christian Science Monitor"
It is easy to become immersed in this memoir Mda's deeper struggles parallel those of all South Africans seeking identity and freedom. "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
Remarkably gorgeous, urgent, poetic... It's been a long time since I have been so undone and remade by another person's words. "Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight""
"A gregarious and transfixing memoir... Chronicles the upheavals that have sharpened Mda's skills as a wide-ranging social observer." --Rob Nixon, The New York Times Book Review
"Fascinating... During my five-year stint as Africa bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor, I struggled in vain to find a memoir like this one." --Scott Baldauf, The Christian Science Monitor
"It is easy to become immersed in this memoir... Mda's deeper struggles parallel those of all South Africans seeking identity and freedom." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Remarkably gorgeous, urgent, poetic... It's been a long time since I have been so undone and remade by another person's words." --Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
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