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The
2003 Award
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The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K. Sello Duiker
Nominated by:
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Tshepo,
a young student at Rhodes, is strange. He reads esoteric books, for example.
And he has a difficult time keeping up with his mind. So when he finds himself
at the Valkenberg mental facility, it is perhaps not entirely due to 'cannabis-
induced psychosis'. He is being propelled both by his efforts to make sense
of the present and by his past - a past in a violent country, where in one
night he lost his mother to death, his father to crime, and himself to daunting
uncertainty. How is he to bring together the shattered pieces of his life? He is a lonely youth, and as the lonely often do, he seeks solace in strange places and among shady people. But twilight is yet a form of light, and it is in the subculture of male prostitution that he finds answers - and comfort - for the first time. Discovering first his true sexuality, and then that sexuality is only a key to the greater realms of a hidden, mythical humanity, Tshepo can finally tap into the ancient powers that are his birthright. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| K. Sello Duiker, an advertising copywriter currently living in Johannesburg, grew up in Soweto and East London. He graduated from Rhodes University, majoring in Journalism and Art History. Thirteen Cents, his first novel, was awarded the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. |
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