Rob Gaylard Reviews African Violet: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2012
Verdict: carrot
The Caine Prize has established itself as the leading award for African short fiction. Many of its previous winners have gone on to establish themselves among the leading lights of a new generation of African writers.
This collection, African Violet and Other Stories. The Caine Prize for African Writing 2012 (The New Internationalist and Jacana), makes for rewarding and sometimes compelling reading. The stories are not characterised by formal experimentation, but they explore and dramatise the human situations of a variety of protagonists.
Book Details
- African Violet: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2012 by Various authors
EAN: 9781431404926
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