THE HISTORY OF MAN

287pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2020

A novel set in an unnamed southern African country, about the life of a white, middle-aged civil servant.

Writer, filmmaker and academic Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu was born in Zimbabwe and currently lives and works in Johannesburg. She wrote, directed and edited the short film Graffiti, and is the author of the novel The Theory of Flight, winner of the fiction prize at the 2019 Sunday Times Literary Awards.