http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/rss/books/RSS.xml The latest new books in Literature and Literary Criticism: African Languages en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT 1440 http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo14580339.html "I found myself in the thick of things. I shut my eyes experimentally, opened them again. If I was dreaming, the scene should change – but no, everything was exactly as it had been before."So begins A Labour of Moles, by one of South Africa’s most important writers, Ivan Vladislavic: a story which takes the reader into a realm utterly alien and at the same time as familiar as the letters forming the words on the page and the very building-blocks of fiction. <div><p>&quot;I found myself in the thick of things. I shut my eyes experimentally, opened them again. If I was dreaming, the scene should change &ndash; but no, everything was exactly as it had been before.&quot;</p><p>So begins <i>A Labour of Moles</i>, by one of South Africa&rsquo;s most important writers, Ivan Vladislavic: a story which takes the reader into a realm utterly alien and at the same time as familiar as the letters forming the words on the page and the very building-blocks of fiction.</p></div> Literature and Literary Criticism: African Languages Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT Ivan Vladislavic 9780956509284