189pp., paperback, Revised South African Edition, Johannesburg, 2008
Originally published in the UK in 1987.
"Seductive, brilliant, and precious...An extraordinary writer." Toni Morrison
"Exquisite embers in the ash of so much apartheid-era writing, speaking powerfully to post-apartheid sensibilities." David Attwell
Zoë Wicomb other books are: "David's Story" (2000), "Playng in the Light" (2006), The One that got Away" (2008) and October (2015). She won the first Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2013.