SCATTERLINGS

213pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (2020) 2021

Winner of the 2019-2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award and a 2021 SALA Award.

A novel set in South Africa in 1927, the year the Immortality Act was passed by the Parliament of South Africa. The act prohibited extramarital sex between white people and people of other races.

Reŝoketŝwe Manenzhe is a chemical engineer who currently lives in Cape Town, where she is completing her PhD at UCT.