Publisher: Modjaji Books, South Africa
A page turning, gender and genre-bending novel
set on the Cape Flats in Capetown, South Africa; a story of people who
live in a place of violence which involves drugs, corrupt clergy,
queerness, friendships – and how these survive in a society that is
dysfunctional due to historical social problems; very much a novel of
now, the 21st century. A book that will change the literary landscape of
South Africa.
This work is based on the research supported by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Innie Shadows was a finalist in the 2021 NIHSS Awards.
£18.00
About the author
Olivia M. Coetzee was in Mariental gebore, ʼn klein dorpie innie suide
van Namibia. Sy’t haa stem en woorde gekry in die township van Electric
City, wat in Eeste Rivie is, in Kaapstad, Suid Afrika. Olivia het ʼn
meesters graad van die Universiteit van Kaapstad. Sy skryf vir Litnet as
een van hulle rubriek skrywers en vetaal die Bybel, as oek fairy tales
in Kaaps. Deu die wêk wat sy nou doen, en wêk wat sy in die toekoms gat
anvat beoog sy om anner Kaapsprekendes om in hulle taal te skryf, en sy
wil met haar skryfwêk in Kaaps tien die geloef druk wat sê dat Kaaps is ʼn
taal wat net moet gehoor wôt en nie gelies wôttie.
Review
“Innie Shadows se karakters klink soos regte mense van die Kaapse
Vlakte en voer hul bestaan in die skadu van herkenbare probleme
soos dwelmverslawing, huishoudelike geweld, armoede en seksmisdade. Dit
is egter ook ‘n verhaal oor nuwe vryhede — sensitief vertel op ’n nuwe
manier, in ‘n nuwe soort stem.”
Dr Sonja Loots, (author and lecturer in Afrikaans and Nederlands)
“Innie Shadows is ‘n Kaapse Vlakte riller roman,wat genres kruis; ‘n
bladsyraaier, met uitstekend dialoog. with excellent dialogue. Sou goed
werk as n’ film.“
Dr Hester van der Walt (skyrwe van Sê my, is julle twee susters?)
“Olivia M. Coetzee crafts a new language to bring to life stories of
dispossession from those left behind in the transition to democracy.
Her prose is taut, unsparing and unsentimental. It wrestles with the
demons of one community overcome with the social ills of drugs, bigotry
and homophobia, where lives intersect through ruthless brutality. This
haunting novel will stay with the reader long after the final page is
turned. A pioneering work of fiction in which the dispossessed are
finally telling their own stories.”
Dr Barbara Boswell (author of Grace, a novel)
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