Still Life

A New York Times Top Historical Fiction Pick of 2020An inventive and genre-bending new novel from a master of the form, exploring race, the legacy of past exploitation and present-day authorship. Who should be remembered, and who should tell their story? . Juggling with our perception of time and reality, Still Life tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet and abolitionist Thomas Pringle. A multitude of voices across time, place and the lines of fiction and history - From the spectre of Mary Prince to Virginia Woolf''s own Sir Nicholas Green - vie for the reader''s attention. Their adventures through time and space, from Victorian South Africa and London to the author''s desk in Glasgow in the present day, offer a poignant exploration of colonial history and racial oppression.

• | Author: Zoe Wicomb
• | Publisher: Peninsula Press Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 26, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781913512101
• | ISBN-10: 191351210X