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Amidst Grey Shades
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ISBN13: 9798233935282
Publisher: T. G. Nduna
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: T. G. Nduna
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Cape Town, 1969. In a narrow commercial office on Buitenkant Street, a young Black woman has spent two years quietly noticing things no one has asked her to notice - weight discrepancies in shipping manifests, patterns in paperwork, the careful silences of men with something to hide. She has been filing her observations in a private notebook, waiting for a reason to use them.
When a temporary manager arrives from Johannesburg, she recognises in him the same quality of attention she has been cultivating alone. What begins as professional wariness deepens, under pressure and in secret, into something neither of them planned for.
Set against the fog and beauty of apartheid-era Cape Town, this is a story about the courage of noticing, the cost of conscience, and the stubborn insistence of love in a city that would prefer you looked away.
The mountain watches. The work continues.
Set against the fog and beauty of apartheid-era Cape Town, this is a story about the courage of noticing, the cost of conscience, and the stubborn insistence of love in a city that would prefer you looked away.
The mountain watches. The work continues.
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