Book description
Fleeing pogroms in his native Lithuania, a young man named Smous arrives in Cape Town in 1901, determined to travel to the interior city of Calyinia but temporarily sidetracked in the isolated settlement of Middlepost
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1 author picked Middlepost as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book because, although we have another, more celebrated writer in the genre of magical realism, I think this is better than the other, which garnered that author a Nobel Prize. And by the way, that is “Sir” Anthony Sher to me and you (and with good reason). Cape Town-born Sher–descended from Lithuanian religious refugees in the late C1–gained fame as a lead male actor in the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The book is an allegory of South African race relations, in which a Lithuanian refugee, Smous (Dutch for traveling salesman), is ordained to travel the South African wastelands…
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