Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (Paperback)

from akeela

This slim volume of short stories about domestic workers and their 'medems' is set in pre-democratic South Africa. I thought it excellent. A prominent young South African writer talks about 'listening' to these stories, rather than reading them, which harks back to the African oral storytelling t...

from Bodagirl

A great entry into modern African fiction and the apartheid system. Readers can easily draw comparisons between Part One and The Help.

from akeela

This slim volume of short stories about domestic workers and their 'medems' is set in pre-democratic South Africa. I thought it excellent. A prominent young South African writer talks about 'listening' to these stories, rather than reading them, which harks back to the African oral storytelling t...

from rainpebble

For those of you who read The Help, whether you like it or not but especially if you had a problem with any realism of the subject matter, you should read this last book that I read. It is called Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night and is by Sindiwe Magona. The first half of it is about domes...

from rainpebble

For those of you who read The Help, whether you like it or not but especially if you had a problem with any realism of the subject matter, you should read this last book that I read. It is called Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night and is by Sindiwe Magona. The first half of it is about domes...