THE REACTIVE

198 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2014

A novel about three friends who sell illegal pharmaceuticals in Cape Town.

"In sentences which swing like nobody else's in South Africa, Masande Mtshanga sets out on a thrilling new expedition of writerly daring" Imraan Coovadia

Masande Ntshanga is the winner of the 2013 PEN International New Voices Award. He was born in East London in 1986. After completing a Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Foundation, he received a Fullbright Award and an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship. This is his first novel.