The late Richard Rive was a great writer from South Africa (“coloured”) whose life was eventually tinged with tragedy as he was murdered in his South African home over 20 years ago.
This is a collection of short stories. They are of remarkable depth and well
written. They show the author at his masterly best, imaginative with a host of fine characters.
Stories in this collection are -
Moon over district 6,
Dagga smoker s dream, Rain, The bench, Resurrection, No room at
Solitaire, Drive-in, Riva, The visits, Make like slaves, The man from
the board, Advance, retreat.
The stories here can be enjoyed by readers around the world. There are excellent pictures of Cape Town over the decades. The intensity and empathy is overpowering. There is frustration, angst, sorrow, and prejudice. There is also sophisticated irony
The late Rive s other books included –
The emergency, The emergency continued, Buckingham Palace District 6, African Songs, Olive Schreiner, Quartet, writing Black, Modern African prose: an anthology
K. Motheane
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