The One That Got Away: Short Stories

by Zoë Wicomb and Jane Wong

Book Overview

These short stories from the award-winning South African author "combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider's intimate warmth" (J. M. Coetzee).

Zo Wicomb's debut short story collection, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, won critical acclaim across the globe as well as high praise from fellow authors including Toni Morrison, J. M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Now, after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595584579
• ISBN13: 9781595584571
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"