Set in three cities at three very different moments in our recent history, “London, Cape Town, Joburg” is the story not just of Germaine, Michael and their son Zuko, but of all of us who witnessed the South African miracle and came to believe in the dream of Mandela’s rainbow nation. When their teenage son takes his own life, Germaine and Michael’s marriage is forced under the microscope. How did two people, so passionately committed to each other and to building a life for themselves in a “new” nation full of opportunity, come to a place of such hurt.
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About the Author
Zukiswa Wanner
Zukiswa Wanner is a writer, editor, and publisher born in Zambia to a Zimbabwean mother and a South African father, raised in Zimbabwe and currently based in Kenya but who considers the whole African continent her home. Her debut novel, The Madams (2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 K.Sello Duiker Award in 2007. Her third novel Men of the South (2010) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book 2011 and the Herman Charles Bosman Award.
In 2014, she was selected as one of the Africa39 sub-Saharan writers under 40 with the potential and talent to define trends in African literature. In 2015, she won the K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award for London Cape Town Joburg (2014). In 2016, she was a Danish International Visiting Artist (DIVA) hosted by World Wide Words. In 2018, she was a fellow at the University of Johannesburg’s Institute of Advanced Studies (JIAS).
In 2020, she was awarded the Goethe Medal alongside Ian McEwan and Elvira Espejo Ayca, making Wanner the first African woman to win the award.
