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The Last Train to Zona Verde: Paul Theroux’s Final African Adventure @PenguinBooksSA http://t.co/jiMbvqs21I

Jonathan Amid Reviews The Miracle of Crocodile Flats by Jenny Hobbs

The Miracle of Crocodile FlatsVerdict: carrot

The vicissitudes of living in South Africa are fertile ground for novelists to excavate and examine particular aspects of our society. Replete with the hyperbole, exaggeration and embellishment, satire is one such form, a Janus-faced animal animated by the impulse to contort and distort, ever ready also to illuminate truth and understanding.

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