You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town by Zoë Wicomb

You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town

Zoë Wicomb

fiction short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

240 pages | first published 1987

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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town is among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of "Coloured" citizens in apartheid-era South Africa, whose mixed heritage traps them, as Bharati Mukherjee wrote in the New York Times, "in the racial cr...
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Summary of 49 reviews

Moods

reflective 100%
challenging 75%
emotional 75%
sad 25%

Pace

slow 80%
medium 20%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 66% | Plot: 33%

Strong character development?

Yes: 75% | It's complicated: 25%

Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 75% | Yes: 25%

Diverse cast of characters?

Yes: 50% | It's complicated: 25% | No: 25%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 100%

Average rating

3.5

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