The Sunday Independent’s books editor muses over three current books. The piece is worth the click-through for her email conversation with Ben Trovato alone:
I accidentally slept through the launch of Rian Malan’s Resident Alien, his first published work since My Traitor’s Heart, written two decades ago, because I was feeling under the weather. However, I perked up when I read this new collection, packed with Malanisms.
Herein lies all the provocation, and the often-searing perception about the places, the writers and politicians we love and loathe.
“I called it as I saw it,” says Malan in his introduction, and those who have forgiven him for challenging the US Agency for International Development’s mechanism for ascertaining HIV/Aids stats during the depths of denialism in South Africa and the aims of the aids lobby, which Malan set out so eagerly to discount, and even those who have not forgiven him for this, will do well to buy this book.
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