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BookBytes: Shafinaaz chats to author Tebello Mzamo about her debut novel I Did not Die. Set in both Lesotho and South Africa, it engages the effects of migrant labour on families in post-apartheid South Africa. Told through the eyes of the different family members, the narrative uses shifting points of view and moves fluidly through time to present an intimate but complex view of the lives of ordinary working class people.
I Did Not Die
ISBN: 9780795710735
Publisher: Kwela
Date Released: February 2023
Price (incl. VAT): R 270.00
Format: Soft cover, 224pp
About this book:
Botho Pere finds work as a miner in South Africa and he has to leave his wife, Nthatisi, and their two children in Lesotho. There are secrets threatening to unravel the delicate thread that has been holding their family together. And though some of Botho’s troubles are of his own making, others are rumoured to be caused by witchcraft.
I Did Not Die is a story about the realities of a mineworker and his family.
Tebello Mzamo grew up in Gugulethu in Cape Town and completed her master's degree cum laude at Rhodes University. Her work has already appeared in the journals TYHINI, Writing ThreeSixty and New Contrast, in the short story collection Incredible Journey: Stories that move you and in the online newspaper GroundUp. In 2009 she was a recipient of a silver merit certificate in the I’m a Writer! Competition of the SABC. Tebello is currently working on her first novel.
