Touch: Stories of Contact
Publication Date: June 2009
A collection of short stories by twenty-two of South Africa's best writers, commissioned by Karina Magdalena Szczurek, on the theme of 'touch'. Some of the stories remember lost love or intimate encounters; some deal with everyday and chance meetings that are in some way transformative; others deal with familial interactions; one or two explore the idea of 'staying in touch'. All royalties will be donated to the Treatment Action Campaign.
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The Rowing Lesson by Anne Landsman
"...Nothing about this curriculum vitae conveys the visceral appeal of Anne Landsman's second novel,
The Rowing Lesson, a book that puts readers as deep into the man as if he had been opened up on the table before us...Landsman's shifting pronouns are what give this book its febrile and uncanny life, in which the barriers between self and other appear at moments to dissolve..." - Michael Gorra,
The New York Times
