Coming Home and Other Stories - Farida Karodia

[Luke]

Coming Home and Other Stories, Farida Karodia, 1988, South Africa (South Africa/Canada), SHORT STORIES

"The nine stories in this collection present a chorus of voices—black, white, east Indian; horrifically poor, offensively rich; angry, oblivious, beaten—that rise up off the page until each story seems to have its own sound...Behind and through each story, like an undercurrent, is an unexpressed violence simmering in the tsotsi who roam the suburban streets looking for trouble and in the frustration that mounts through the stench and poverty of a township or behind the locked gates of a mansion...."

(E.B., p. 41)