Description
It is the middle of 1986. Cape Town’s squatter camps are burning. The State of Emergency has been declared. Billy Marks moves against a background of complex disruption and disintegration while attempting to find images of wholeness to hold onto and bind things together. His search moves through fiction, memory and his relationship with his lover Sue, always looking for metaphoric rafts, for ways of staying afloat on the swirling tide of history. A dazzlingly innovative contemporary novel.
