The eyes of the naked
By: Litha Hermanus
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781415210079; 9781415210369
Subjects: Fatherhood; Fiction; Missing persons
Description: Amid the chaos, he'd fled on foot from the crime scene. He ran under the cover of night, his escape aided by a series of broken street lamps. He'd come away with nothing save the clothes on his back - and now his son. After becoming embroiled in a robbery, Nakedi Solomon flees to Mthatha, taking his boy with him - without his ex-wife's knowledge. But the Eastern Cape offers no refuge: his young brother has run away from home, possibly to a suspicious circumcision school. Drawn into the hunt for his sibling while he evades the law, Nakedi will smash into his history, and the norms of society and culture, to ask: What does it mean to be a man? To be a father? On this unexpected journey, a new consciousness awakens inside him.