By Buntu Siwisa
Luzuko Goba, a South African studying at Oxford, navigates the worlds of the undocumented, and the people living on the margins of life in Oxford, England.
His father, a former political exile, has just died, and Luzuko is weighing up his father’s life of sacrifice and the price they both paid for freedom back home. This is a book about wayfarers, out of time, and on the wrong side of the UK’s department of immigration. They are the paperless.
“A sensual novel that provokes all your sensibilities.“
– Sue Nyathi, author of A Family Affair and An Angel’s Demise
Sweeping and soulful, Buntu Siwisa observes the hidden and exceptional modern lives of migrant Africans in England in this beautiful debut.
About the author
Buntu Siwisa is a senior researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at the University of the Witwatersrand. His most recent book, Rugby, Resistance and Politics: How Dan Qeqe Helped Shape the History of South Africa was published in 2022.
Paperless is his debut novel and was shortlisted for the James Currey Prize for African Literature.
- PUBLISHER | Jacana Media |
- ISBN | 9781431434015 |
- Recommended Retail Price | R280.00 |
- Classification | History |
