Somehow Tenderness Survives

A splendid collection which catches, in a range of voices and tones, the oppression of the everyday in South Africa. The human reality of racism is caught by writers of craft and subtlety. There's much here for GCSE study, as single stories or as a collection - many schools will need sets. This edition was compiled after Mandela's release; it will give a context to the newly unfolding events but, more than that, it casts piercing shafts of light into human behaviour.