Latest Review: Mafeking Road and Other Stories
E. J.‘s latest review is of Herman Charles Bosman’s Mafeking Road and Other Stories, which will be available in June from Archipelago. Bosman is widely regarded as “South Africa’s greatest short story writer” (see Wikipedia), although I don’t think he’s very well known here. ...
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Mafeking Road and Other Stories
The stories in Mafeking Road are set in the Transvaal region of what is now South Africa at the turn of the 20th century, when the local Boer population were at war with the British in a conflict that is known as the Boer War. The British were seeking to re-establish that part of southern Africa as a British colony, following ...
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