‘Firepool’ is a chronicle of South Africa in the ‘second transition’ – one in which the foundations of the post-apartheid settlement are being shaken and questioned in all kinds of ways. From the complex legacy of artists like Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and JM Coetzee to the #Fees Must Fall protests, from the N2 highway to the gnawing uncertainty of our nuclear future, Hedley Twidle treats serious subjects with a sense of playfulness, mischief and imagination. Deeply personal, and spanning culture, elemental landscape and ideas, Twidle gets under the skin of South Africa in fresh and unexpected ways.
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HEDLEY TWIDLE is a writer, teacher and scholar based at the University of Cape Town. He was the winner of the inaugural Bodley Head/’Financial Times’ Essay Competition in 2012 for his piece ‘Getting Past Coetzee’. His next book, on narrative non-fiction and the South African transition, will be published in 2018.
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