📱 eBook en inglés JIMFISH

In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict:

Hes very odd, this Jimfish youve hauled in. If hes white he is not the right sort of white. But if hes black, who can say? Well wait before we classify him. Ill give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because hes a real fish out of water, this one is.

So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, a South African Everyman, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond the borders of South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the defining moments of the dying days of the twentieth century. Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetimes writing and thinking, on both the Apartheid regime and the history of the twentieth century, by a writer of enormous originality and range.