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Waiting for Leila (1981)

Waiting for Leila (1981)

Literary Fiction

Achmat Dangor

Year: 1981
Authors: Achmat Dangor
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Samad's search for Leila is an odyssey through a world where the jackhammers are destroying more than bricks and mortar: they are tearing into the souls of people, brutalising them, leaving them with hearts as empty as the shop windows in Hanover Street. Waiting for Leila is a powerful indictment of a way of life to which so many were condemned; but despite this, as Samad says: 'Our ghosts are ineradicable.'.