New book: Wame Molefhe’s Go Tell the Sun
Jesse Breytenbach designed this lovely cover for Wame Molefhe’s new book of short stories, Go Tell the Sun which will be launched next week, at the Northern Cape Writers’ Festival in Kimberley. Wame is a special guest of the Festival.
More about Wame:
Wame Molefhe was born in Francistown, Botswana. She started writing short stories in 2005 when she won the British Council/Alexander McCall Smith Short Story Competition. In 2007 she was highly commended in the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Award. She has co-written two TV dramas, Morwalela and Re Bina Mmogo II. Her fiction has been published in local and international journals, anthologies and online. ‘Just Once’ (MediPublishing 2009), a children’s collection of short stories was her first book. Go Tell the Sun is her second short story collection. She currently freelances for TV and various publications.
This what Rustum Kozain has to say about Go Tell the Sun
Wame Molefhe’s stories have a gentle, unassuming yet intimate and captivating feel to them. Set in Botswana, the stories trace the lives of characters whose paths cross and re- cross each others’, some times in and through love, at other times through tragedy. And through them the author brings to bear a woman’s perspective on the societal mores in which sexual abuse, homophobia and AIDS, among others, flourish and spread. The social content and views are never proclaimed as a loud agenda; instead, it forms a ‘natural’ backdrop to the lives of the characters, something that may raise a wry comment or thought in one character, while eliciting a mere shrug from another. Molefhe’s voice is, to some extent, a world-weary voice, weary of all she has seen of society’s failures, but never without the gentleness often absent and much needed in broken societies, and never without the hope and redemption that can be found in love and the imagination.
Book details
- Go Tell the Sun by Wame Molefhe
EAN: 9781920397036
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