Love Interrupted

Reneilwe Malatji

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Catalyst Books
13 November 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

An exploration of black female experiences with both romantic and filial love through short fictional stories that face both tragedy and humor.

These stories range in voice and style, using both humor and tragedy to offer a unique glimpse into the interior lives of black South African women and the cultural expectations and social burdens placed on them in the name of love, marriage, and motherhood.

This is Reneilwe Malatji's debut into the United States.

Its South African edition (published by Modjaji Books) won the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize for best original creative work by a woman in 2014.

By: Reneilwe Malatji
Imprint: Catalyst Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781946395030
ISBN 10: 194639503X
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 13 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Angela 1 Drama Queens and Kings 13 Love Interrupted 26 Lebo’s Story 1: A Young Girl’s Dream Interrupted 57 Lebo’s Story 2: It’s My Turn to Eat 76 Vicious Cycle 91 The Things We Do For Love 108 Take Back the Lobola 123 Bridal Shower 137 My Perfect Husband 152 The Threat 163 A Million Dollars in Grahamstown 175 Toy Boy 200 Glossary 220

Reneilwe Malatji was born in South Africa in 1968. She grew up in Turfloop township, in the northern part of South Africa, during the era of apartheid. Her father was an academic and her mother was a school teacher. Malatji trained as a teacher and worked as a subject specialist and advisor to provincial education departments. She recently completed a post-graduate diploma in Journalism and an MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University. She works as a lecturer at the University of Limpopo in South Africa and has an adult son. Love interrupted is her first book.

Reviews for Love Interrupted

The unsentimental style of these stories packs an emotional punch as they examine post-apartheid patriarchy through the eyes of various observant black women characters. -Foreword Reviews -- AIMEE JODOIN * Foreword Reviews *