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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Local Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781415205549
Published: July 2013
Imprint: Umuzi
Page Extent: 160
Format: e-Book
RRP 165.00

Zebra Crossing

Meg Vandermerwe

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ghost. ape. living dead. Young Chipo has been called many names, but to her mother – Zimbabwe’s most loyal Manchester United supporter – she had always just been Chipo, meaning gift.

On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo and her brother flee to Cape Town hoping for a better life and to share in the excitement of the greatest sporting event ever to take place in Africa.

But the Mother City’s infamous Long Streetis a dangerous place for an illegal immigrant and albino. Soon Chipo is caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme organised by her brother and the terrifying Dr Ongani.

Exploiting gamblers’ superstitions about albinism, they plan to make money and get out before rumours of looming xenophobic attacks become reality. However, their scheming has...

About the Author

Meg Vandermerwe

Meg Vandermerwe

Meg Vandermerwe was born in South Africa in 1978 and raised and educated in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. She holds degrees from the universities of Oxford, Sussex, and East Anglia. Zebra Crossing was written as a part of her PhD at the University of Lancaster. After twenty-two years of living abroad, she returned to Cape Town in 2008. She lectures Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of the Western Cape, where her responsibilities include UWC Creates, the first multilingual Creative Writing programme in South African higher education. A collection of her short stories, This Place I Call Home, was published in 2010.

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