A truly South African story about a struggling father-and-son relationship and the healing power of words. Van der Vyver writes convincingly about the world of performance poetry and Gabriel's desperate attempts to make sense of life's challenges after the death of his mom.
This book is a translation of the Afrikaans edition, Al wat ek weet, which was the runner-up in LAPA's teen and young adult novel competition for 2015.
Marita van der Vyver is the author of You Lost Me and a dozen other novels, as well as collections of short stories and essays, picture books for children, young adult fiction, radio plays, film scripts and regular columns in newspapers and magazines. She has won numerous literary awards and her books have been published in English, Dutch and German. her first adult novel, published in English as Entertaining Angels, was a bestseller translated into twelve languages. Two of her novels have been turned into films and many have been adapted for the stage. She lives in France with her husband.
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