Living Loving & Lying Awake At Night

Sindiwe Magona's superb collection of short stories brings a full range of South African women's experience brilliantly to light From the village mother leaving her children to work; the maid in service to the white medem; the black child raped and murdered, Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night is at once tragic, triumphant, humorous, and sharp, but above all forcefully empowering.