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| All too human: Four new South African novels have much to say about our lives today
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Of Fathers and Fugitives, Character Scan, Tunnel and The Frightened - four new local novels on the shelf.

Every bit of writing by Naude is worth reading – whether it be full-length novels likeor articles reflecting on translation, the cultural life of language and texts and what it means to be an insider or outsider.

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