Shift
Gold, Irma2025
Book
Arlie is a moderately successful thirty-something photographer who can't seem to get his shit together. He can't hold onto a girlfriend, or much else, and his relationship with his parents is complicated. His agoraphobic mother, Dellie, has long drawn silence over her South African upbringing. The more she refuses to illuminate, the more Arlie wants to know. After another break-up, Arlie needs to get away, and there's only one place he's drawn to. In Kliptown, he meets choirmaster Rufaro, singer Glory and her younger brother Samson. Amidst the poverty, violence and beauty of this neglected South African township, Arlie begins exploring ideas for an exhibition, and courting the possibility of happiness. But then his father unexpectedly turns up, and a catastrophic event changes everything. Shift is an unflinching, insightful and immersive novel that takes the reader inside the inner life of one township, beyond the hyperbole of newspaper headlines, to offer bold, big-hearted hope.
Main title:
Shift / Irma Gold.
Author:
Gold, Irma, author
Work:
Imprint:
Rundle Mall, SA : MidnightSun Publishing, 2025.©2025
Collation:
269 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781922858566 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
481494