num_pages: 166
description: Sindiwe Magona’s superb collection of short stories brings a full range of South African women’s experience brilliantly to light From the village mother leaving her children to work; the maid in service to the white medem; the black child raped and murdered, Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night is at once tragic, triumphant, humorous, and sharp, but above all forcefully empowering.
language: English
title: Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night
titlecomplete: Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (Interlink World Fiction)
genres: 20th Century, School, South Africa, Fiction, Short Stories, International, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 110
publisher: Interlink Books