The Writing Circle, the - Maart, Rozena
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In a Cape Town suburb, five women gather every Friday night to discuss their writing. Isabel, returning home, where the writing circle is to meet, is attacked in her car at gunpoint and raped. But she manages to turn the gun on her attacker and shoot him. In coping with the killing, the disposal of the body and the breakdown and recovery of Isabel, we learn about the intersecting personal lives of the women - Isabel, Carmen, Jazz, Beauty and Amina, all successful professionals in today's South Africa. And when the body is discovered and the identity of the attacker revealed, all their…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In a Cape Town suburb, five women gather every Friday night to discuss their writing. Isabel, returning home, where the writing circle is to meet, is attacked in her car at gunpoint and raped. But she manages to turn the gun on her attacker and shoot him. In coping with the killing, the disposal of the body and the breakdown and recovery of Isabel, we learn about the intersecting personal lives of the women - Isabel, Carmen, Jazz, Beauty and Amina, all successful professionals in today's South Africa. And when the body is discovered and the identity of the attacker revealed, all their stereotypes fall away. Narrated by all five women in their indiviudal styles, The Writing Circle, is a wholly engaging, highly suspensful novel that also holds up a mirror to the violence in women's lives.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Rozena Maart (born 1962) is a South African writer, professor and psychotherapist, currently living in Canada. She has been recognized for her writing, and for her work opposing apartheid and violence against women. She has lectured throughout Canada and the United States. She was born in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa. Her family was forcibly removed from District Six in 1973 as a result of the government's Forced Removal Act. In 1987 when she was 24, Maart was nominated for the Woman of the Year award hosted in Johannesburg, for her work opposing violence against women and for starting, with four women, the first Black feminist organization in Cape Town, Women Against Repression (WAR). She moved to Canada in 1989 and published her first book of poetry in 1990, Talk About It!. She won the Journey Prize in 1992 for her short story No Rosa, No District Six, which later appeared in her debut short story collection Rosa's District Six. She is the author of several books of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction and novels, most recently the novel The Writing Circle, published in 2007 (TSAR Publications).