The year of the tapeworm

Mandla 'Scara' Nhlabatsi is a journalist on the Black World who yearns to write 'tales of fantasy and imagination'. In the small hours of a Saturday morning he is awakened from a drunken stupor by urgent knocking at the door of his tiny Sofasonke home. Scara stumbles out of bed to find the most unexpected visitors imaginable staring into his incredulous red eyes: the white President of a beleaguered government and one of his ministers. They have come to ask a favour. And so begins an uproarious sequence of adventures, stranger than any Scara's overheated mind might have invented ...

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

Ravan Press

Editions

1

Pages

207

ISBN

9780869754887

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