REVIEW | Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu further enriches the broad canvas of her novels with The Quality of Mercy

BOOK: The Quality of Mercy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Penguin)

The title of The Quality of Mercy is surely taken from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. This is Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s third novel in a trilogy that does not proceed strictly chronologically but picks up on characters and situations of the earlier books, The Theory of Flight and The History of Man, and expands those stories of those characters.