A cinematic, beautifully rendered record of South Africa’s bloody transition to democracy that wends through the later years of the Struggle, this novel is an utterly engrossing account of the lives of those in the liberation movement – as told through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy on a journey from Zambia to his father’s homeland to find his mother.
The Lost Language of the Soul
By: Mandla Langa
Reviewed by Luso Mnthali
in December 2023
Published: 2021
Publisher: Picador Africa
ISBN: 9781770107663