Behind the violence of the evening -news about South Africa lingers an anguished threat of brutality for both blacks and whites. Born and raised in Zululand, Ernst Havemann has collected eleven illuminating stories about his former homeland in Bloodsong (Polestar $9.95). Now available in paperback, this collection by Havemann, a four-time CBC fiction prize winner, has drawn critical comparisons to the work of South African writers such as J .M. Coetzee and Nadime Gordimer.

[BCBW Autumn 1989]