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The Quality of Mercy

ISBN 
9781776380008
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R320.00
Published 
September 2022
About the book: 
On the eve of his country’s independence, Spokes Moloi investigates his first ‘white case’ and finds a very confusing crime scene. Having recently been promoted to Chief Inspector, it is up to Spokes – a man of impeccable rectitude and moral spotlessness who is supported in all things by his paragon spouse, Loveness – to solve long-standing mysteries. His task now is to unravel the alleged murder of a man, Emil Coetzee, but also the tangled web that his life created.
 
Following on her award-winning novels  The Theory of Flight  and  The History of Man,  Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s  The Quality of Mercy  is a novel of comfort and, indeed, mercy. Ndlovu weaves together elements of social comedy and cosy crime while examining the history of a country transitioning from a colonial to a postcolonial state. From the City of Kings and surrounding villages steps a cast of engaging characters who will criss-cross each other’s lives in delightful and poignant ways. Here, where everyone knows everyone else, the ties of kinship and affiliation can never be completely broken.
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About the Author

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is the author of the bestselling novel  The Theory of Flight,  winner of the 2019  Sunday Times  Fiction Prize and currently a school set work, and its follow-up,  The History of Man.  A winner of Yale University’s 2022  Windham Campbell  Prize, she is a writer, filmmaker, and academic who holds a PhD from Stanford University as well as master’s degrees in African Studies and Film from Ohio University. She has published research on  Saartjie Baartman  and she wrote, directed, and edited the award-winning short film  Graffiti.  She was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Photograph © Nokuthula Sarah Ndhlovu

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