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October (novel)
''October'' is a 2014 novel by Zoë Wicomb. Wicomb, who won a 2013 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, is originally from Namaqualand, South Africa, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde. ''October'' is the story of Mercia Murray, a professor in Glasgow, Scotland, who returns to Kliprand, Namaqualand in South Africa when her brother, Jake, writes her to come home and get his son, Nicky. The themes include homemaking, exile, return and race. ''Quadrapheme: 21st Century Literature'' has noted that ''October'' is a story about homecoming, a story about home, a story about belonging, not-belonging, women and children, class and race and education, motherhood and fatherhood. Asked by Anna James to sum up the book in three words, Zoë Wicomb answered, "Home, deracination, family secrets." Characters * Mercia Murray – also known as Mercy, a Glasgow university professor originally from Kliprand, Namaqualand, in South Africa who returns to Kliprand, to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Wicomb
Zoë Wicomb (born 23 November 1948) is a South African-Scottish author and academic who has lived in the UK since the 1970s. In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for her fiction. Early life Zoë Wicomb was born near Vanrhynsdorp, Western Cape, in South Africa. Growing up in small-town Namaqualand, she went to Cape Town for high school, and attended the University of the Western Cape (which was established in 1960 as a university for "Coloureds"). After graduating, she left South Africa in 1970 for England, where she continued her studies at Reading University. She lived in Nottingham and Glasgow and returned to South Africa in 1990, where she taught for three years in the department of English at the University of the Western Cape. In 1994 she moved to Glasgow, Scotland, where she was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde until her retirement in 2009. She was Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |