It turned out that it was Ramsay Coker who was in charge over at the Sphinx. In Freda’s opinion, Ramsay Coker was a first-class twit. His head was always in the clouds. ‘I’m writing a novel,’ he told her, as if that was something to crow about, as if there weren’t enough novels in the […]

Tholukuthi it took the first decade of the donkey’s married life for her, by patiently piecing together fragments of the Father of the Nation’s nightmares and sleep talk, sometimes including whole conversations, lectures, debates, arguments, pleas, confessions, musings, by paying special attention to the intimate talk of the Seat of Power and Inner Circle, to […]

Strut, fly, gallop. There are so many ways to walk a street, but none of them will make you bulletproof. I got back from Mama’s and found myself stuck between street and gutter, Trevor knocking on the door early Sunday morning saying Vern been by again telling them they out if they don’t pay in […]

Almost one year ago I was coming to Mr. Debnath’s house for the first time. He was asking to take my interview in the street. Because – he was saying, this was his explanation – the house was being painted, so there was nowhere to sit.Rubbish. Where were the painters, the rags, the buckets, the […]

Olin tavannut lukuisia asiakkaita, joiden rintaa heidän epäoikeudenmukainen kohtalonsa koversi, ja joskus siitä kumpuava raivo oli yhtä räjähdysherkkää kuin kaivoskaasu. Heitä pisti vihaksi se, että alkoholistit ja narkomaanit saivat lapsia pyytämättä tai että jotkut tehtailivat abortteja kuin kävisivät maitokaupassa. Samoin olin kohdannut lukemattomia luovuttajakandidaatteja, jotka eivät hyväksyneet hylkäystä, ja jotkut heistä saivat minut vilkuilemaan olkapääni […]