At the Rendezvous of Victory: And Other Post-apartheid Stories

by Andries Walter Oliphant (Editor)

This collection of short stories blends well-known South African writers with exciting new voices making their debut on the international literary scene. Work is included by Achmat Dangor, Mike Nicol, Nadine Gordimer, Etienne van Heerden, Ken Barris, Kaizer Nyatsumba, Rayda Jacobs, and Sandile Dikeni.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Barry Levy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some of the best modern short stories ever written - written at the the turn from apartheid into democracy.

[NORMAN JAMES LEITE · Rating 2 out of 5]

Contrary to the fly page blurb that the short stories capture “The birth of the new society is symbolically celebrated while high expectations jostle with apprehension and creeping disenchantment” very few stories actually capture the dramatic air that permeated the country after April 1994. In fact many stories can’t be related to the event. The fallacy of the rainbow nation is not expounded (the cover of the 1999 Kwela edition depicts a rainbow). A sad disappointment in an attempt to capture the real post-Apartheid drama and the fracture that followed South Africa’s stumble into democratic freedom