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""One of the best books out of South Africa this year, if not this decade."" Ferial Haffajee, The Daily Maverick ""The Interpreters is outstanding. A singular, genre-riddling literary ride."" Mila de Villiers, Sunday Times ""The stories clamouring to be told about our country."" Chris Roper, Financial Mail ""I finished this book wanting more."" Arja Salafranca, Business Day ""This will be one of the top 5 books brought out in South Africa this year."" Paige Nick, Fine Music Radio ""A powerful book to read on long winter nights. An amulet against the fire."" Joan Hambidge ""The stories were enlightening. I hope this collection will be the first of many."" Lauren O'Connor-May, False Bat Echo ""A necessary reminder of the value of sitting with a story or an obsession."" David Mann, Artthrob ""Rush out and get this book."" Shaun de Waal, News24

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Sean Christie is a journalist and sometime coordinator of emergency responses, who has contributed longform pieces to several South African newspapers, journals and essay collections. His nonfiction book, Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard - Life Among the Stowaways (Jonathan Ball, 2016), was awarded the 2017 Recht Malan Prize. He is a previous winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalist Award. Hedley Twidle is a writer, teacher and researcher based at the University of Cape Town, where he is currently head of English Literary Studies. He is the author of two essay collections, Firepool (Kwela, 2017) and Show Me the Place ( Jonathan Ball, 2024), as well as a study of life writing and the South African transition, Experiments with Truth ( James Currey, 2019).

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