Publications
BOOK: Ghost Limb by Almini van der Merwe
It’s the late 1980s in the Strand, a small coastal town southwest of Cape Town. When Johanna, a new domestic worker, arrives at the home of a dominee’s family, nobody imagines that she will capture the family in her web of emotional complexity. The daughter, who narrates the story, develops an ambivalent friendship with the new recruit but Johanna remains an enigma … This is the story of Ghost Limb, the first novel by Almini van der Merwe, published in Umuzi’s Trailblazers series that highlights innovative new fiction. Here is the first chapter.
