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The One That Got Away: Short Stories

The One That Got Away: Short Stories

Wicomb, Zoë

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ISBN13: 9798893851113
Publisher: New Press
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 192
Language: English
Short stories from the award-winning South African author, which J.M. Coetzee says combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider's intimate warmth.

Zoë Wicomb's debut short story collection, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, won critical acclaim across the globe as well as high praise from fellow authors including Toni Morrison, J. M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Then, after two novels, Wicomb returned to the genre that first brought her international acclaim.

Set mostly in the South African city of Cape Town and the Scottish city of Glasgow, this collection of short stories straddles two worlds, translating each character's experience and life from one culture to another. With an array of expertly drawn characters, twelve tales explore a range of human relationships: marriage, friendship, family, and the fraught yet often intimate relations between those who serve and those who are served.

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