222 mm x 146 mm, softcover, 272 pages RRP: R200, ISBN 978-1-4152-0070-4 Publication date: June 2009, Category: Fiction Description Set in KwaZulu-Natal, Imraan Coovadia’s most recent offering, High Low In-between, charts the relationship between Nafisa, who is coming to terms with her husband’s murder, and the people around her: her dysfunctional family as well as her patient, Millicent Dhlomo, who is dying of Aids. With gathering momentum, the novel exposes the reader to Nafisa’s world of organ donation, greedy Aids denialists, quack doctors, bribes and the looming threats by the South African Revenue Service. Having been part of the struggle, Nafisa now faces the sinister complications of the post-apartheid dispensation and finds herself ostracised once more. We learn with Nafisa what it is to live in a time of various plagues: in which a slip of a needle is a prospective death, in which your husband can be murdered because he received a kidney he didn’t know was acquired illicitly, in which death by Aids has become a currency in the hands of the morally bereft and the politically expedient, and in which acquiring, concealing, and channelling funds determines the lives and prospects of us all. From High Low In-between, page 27 Jadwat was correct. Nafisa smiled to be reminded of the discrepancy. She had no mysteries. Even Jadwat, Jadwat the fool, knew who she was. The large room on the ground floor had belonged to her son almost twenty years earlier, a span of time so great that surely it could not apply to her own existence.     Nafisa felt she must have slept through these twenty years. Her understanding had not caught up with them. Her son’s long absence, his experiences in San Francisco and around the world, were facts she hadn’t accommodated. She was slow, she knew, to work out what happened around her. Others were rapid. To read on What others say A wise book, full of provocative insights. — Vikas Swarup, author of Slumdog Millionaire Imraan Coovadia has a unique and marvellously talented voice. High Low In-between effortlessly extended my capacity to imagine the moral inner world of the kind of character I often wonder about. — Antjie Krog Read Margaret von Klemperer's review here. Read an interview with Imraan Coovadia in the Witness here. Read Jane Rosenthal’s review in the Mail & Guardian. Read Stephanie Nieuwoudt’s review in Rapport. Read a review by Michiel Heyns in the Sunday Independent. Read Diane de Beer’s review in the Pretoria News here. Read a review in the City Press here. To buy this book www.exclusivebooks.com www.kalahari.net home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za