TY - ABST T1 - Triangulum Y1 - 2019 A1 - Masande Ntshanga KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A complex novel that is historical fiction, mystery novel, coming-of-age story, and dystopia. About two-thirds of the book are set in the past and the present and a third in a future that emerges from South Africa’s dystopic past with the “homelands” created by apartheid become corporate controlled domains designed to exploit both raw materials and labor.

PB - Umuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa SN - 9781415210062 9781415210062 9781937512774 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jacaranda Books Art Music, 2019. 377 pp. U.S. ed as Tiangulum. A Novel. Columbus, OH: Two Dollar Radio, 2019. 365 pp. An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 3. 6 (June 2019). Monuments, ‘the remains of an alien civilisation which had now fled’—Read an excerpt from Masande Ntshanga’s new novel Triangulum – The Johannesburg Review of Books.

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