Red Dust

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 340. Maroon cloth, lettered in silver to spine; matching endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page.

A novel of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set in a rural South African town. Written in reaction to her activist mother's murder by the apartheid state: "The seeds of it were born out of my grave-side realisation that if the country would not leave me alone, then I would have to face it". Her parents are the only whites buried in Soweto's Avalon Cemetery (her father, Joe Slovo, having been a leading African National Congress figure and head of the South African Communist Party). "Perhaps the most important piece of fiction yet to emerge from the new South Africa." –San Francisco Chronicle