A wife lies to her husband, seeking refuge from her dowdy life in the plush hotel that overlooks their home. A man ascends the glass-topped dome of a mall in search of a lost childhood memory. History comes to life for a young boy trapped in the city library. An elderly woman nurses a football star back to health ...In these evocative and exquisitely crafted short stories, Henrietta Rose-Innes gives us an extraordinary glimpse into a selection of ordinary lives. Diverse characters - a teenager learning to be a boyfriend, an ageing copywriter, a girl on the brink of womanhood - are all animated in sparse, sparkling prose. The Cape Town they mostly inhabit is both a playground and an obstacle course, filled with menace and delight. Through this landscape, like the pigeons in the title story, they find new paths home - and are themselves transformed by the journey.
| ISBN: | 9781415202647 |
| Publication date: | 5th October 2011 |
| Author: | Rose-Innes, Henrietta |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House South Africa |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |