Triangulum

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TitleTriangulum
Year for Search2019
AuthorsNtshanga, Masande
Pagination373 pp
Date Published2019
PublisherUmuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa
Place PublishedJohannesburg, South Africa
ISBN Number9781415210062 9781415210062 9781937512774
KeywordsMale author, South African author
Annotation

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.

Additional Publishers

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.

Holding Institutions

NNU
Author Note

South African author who holds a Masters of Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town.
Full Text

2019 Ntshanga, Masande (b. 1986). Triangulum. Johannesburg, South Africa: Umuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa. 373 pp. 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. NNU

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. South African author who holds a Masters of Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town.