Waiting for Leila - Ravan Writers Series Author:Achmat Dangor The novella Waiting for Leila together with the stories in thi scollection won the Mofolo-Plomer Prize. All exhibit a vivid range of characters, locales and styles. Waiting for Leila ia a powerful indictment of a way of life to which so many were condemned; but despite this, as main character Samad says: 'Our ghosts are ine... more »radicable.'
Samad's search for Leila is an odyssey through a world where the jackhammers are destroying more than bricks and mortar: they are tearing into the souls of people, brutalising them, leaving them with hearts as empty as the shop windows in Hanover Street.« less