num_pages: 288
description: In a new novel by one of the premier writers of the ''new'' South Africa, an exile returns from America--where he fled during the apartheid regime--to find his newly democratic country in a shambles.
language: English
title: The Heart of Redness
titlecomplete: The Heart of Redness
genres: Historical, Literature, Literary Fiction, 21st Century, South Africa, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 1525
places: Johannesburg
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Africa, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Sunday Times CNA Literary Award / Barry Ronge Fiction Prize
publisher: Picador