THE QUALITY OF MERCY
380pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2022
On the eve of his retirement, policeman Spokes Moloi investigates the possible murder of Emil Coetzee, head of the Organisation of Domestic Affairs, who disappeared on the day a ceasefire was declared and the country’s independence from colonial rule is imminent.
Writer, filmmaker and academic Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu was born in Zimbabwe and currently lives and works in Johannesburg. She is the author of the novels The Theory of Flight (fiction prize at the 2019 Sunday Times Literary Awards) and The History of Man.