EXCERPT | ‘Memory invades a home’ – In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw by Barbara Adair

BOOK: In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw by Barbara Adair. (Modjaji) 

Barbara Adair has published several novels, including In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot and End. In her new book, In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw (Modjaji) she imagines the lives of people living in Springs – in the old Deco buildings, on the streets. University of Pretoria Professor Bridget Grogan says Adair’s “unusual literary style … emphasises fragmentation, intertextuality, historical palimpsest, multiple perspectives, stark shifts of subjectivity … Within these buildings, ghostlike characters’ narrations, never connecting, haunt the work …”