Pages: 210
Year: 2002
Category: Literature, Short Stories
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm
Un/Common Ground
The ten stories in Un/common Ground do, indeed, cover the
unusual and generally unwritten about in South Africa with respect to
both themes and styles. They range from adult love entanglements to the
difficulties of children caught in the dissolution of families; from
white supremacist racial murders to utopian societies of the 26th
century; from drug induced hallucinations and trade in human body parts
to the problems of creating a new identity for anti-apartheid activists
faced by a radically changed world order.
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About the author
ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ was born in 1952 in Vryburg, South Africa but grew
up in Cape Town. Between 1974 and 1985 he lived in the Middle East,
Europe and North America, returning to live in Johannesburg in 1986.
Since then he has worked as an organiser and educator in the trade union
and social housing movements. He is a writer in various genres as well
as being a songwriter and singer. Since leaving full-time employment in
the trade unions in 2009, he continues on an ad hoc with his work as an
educator and activist. He is a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry
performance group and of the Botsotso Publishing editorial board.