REVIEW | All too human: Four new South African novels have much to say about our lives today

Of Fathers and Fugitives by SJ Naude 

Every bit of writing by Naude is worth reading – whether it be full-length novels like The Third Reel, evocative short story collections like The Alphabet of Birds or the recent Mad Honey or articles reflecting on translation, the cultural life of language and texts and what it means to be an insider or outsider.

Naude is a particularly astute voice when writing about transnational or cosmopolitan concerns such as the often-hidden costs of migration and living and working away from home, what "home"as a concept means to those displaced and often disaffected, and how culture, sexuality, loss and alienation are tied to subjects trying to negotiate or renegotiate their place in the world.