AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
249pp., paperback, Umuzi, Cape Town, 2026
ISBN: 9781415211458
A novel about an ordinary man trying to do his job and take care of his family in a country descending into chaos.
Tax collector Mac Mackenjee is trying to trace stolen billions. His wife Tejal, a lawyer, is defending a young revolutionary. The two cases begin to intersect.
"A beautifully written, compelling, and at times nail-biting read." Shaun de Waal
Imraan Coovadia is the author of the novels The Wedding, Green-Eyed Thieves, High Low In-between, The Institute for Taxi Poetry, Tales of the Metric System, and A Spy in Time. He has also published a study of VS Naipaul, as well as a collection of essays, Transformations, and has contributed to publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, N+1, The Independent, Threepenny Review, Chimurenga and The Times of India. He is a winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize, the M-Net Prize, and a South African Literary Award for Non-Fiction. A graduate of Harvard College, he directs the creative writing programme at the University of Cape Town.