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By the winner of the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, the Eugène Marais Prize, the Jan Rabie-Rapport Prize and the Ingrid Jonker Prize.

This collection of Dominique Botha’s shorter writing traverses the South African landscape and far beyond, her gaze wandering from the Highveld to Europe, from family archives to hotel bars, collecting all that is profound, excentric, humorous, mournful.

Blending fiction and autobiography, she presents origin stories, family histories and travels. She sits at the table of Breyten Breytenbach and VS Naipaul, and evokes the Free State farm where she grew up. Poetic, rhythmic and ironic, these pieces – about time, identity and impermanence – is a search for meaning in the landscapes of memory by one of the country’s finest writers.