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Greenberg populates his alternative-reality South Africa with familiar characters in strange circumstances: the underachieving slogger, the adventurous woman, the dedicated career builder, the rebellious student intent on creating a wonderful new world, the unworldly and idealistic politician, the highly pragmatic politician, the new age-y charlatan. This heady mix lures the reader through an underworld of covert operations and personal entanglements that is thoroughly worthwhile. The descriptiv...
The first stroke is the best.Often the most exciting fiction resists genre classification.Jay Rowan works for someone who works for the South African government, the ruling party being Gaia Peace - New Age, all rainbow colours, flowers, wellness and reduction, which has people lowering their walls and removing all but 'privacy' locks from doors. Crime has been loved away - or has it?Jay's current assignment is to paint the windows black at five different Johannesburg sites. What do these venues
- The rainbow colours, the royalty-free images of (exotic) flowers and sunlight through leaves, the ultrabold Helvetica font are all well worn, unimaginative. Why waste money on a creative campaign when you know everyone's going to vote for you? - - Lang understands how unsettling this shift has been. He feels it himself. These protesters were once children who slept safely knowing their daddy owned a gun. They want their talismans back; they need the comforting confinement of battle lines. - -
I liked Greenberg's vision of a future South Africa : women in control, and society should be utopian - but it's not; plot didn't really gell for me.
Dark Windows is set in a re-imagined South Africa where the Gaia Peace movement (previously the Green Party) defeated Mbeki and have been in power for ten years. People who lived through the early nineties and the “first transition” are still alive. It is a political thriller set in Johannesburg that uses great ingenuity to comment on South Africa as well as the propensity within human nature to rebel against restrictions. Simultaneously it is a thriller where mysterious and sinister events are
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A strange dark little story of a new-new South Africa. A cynical redemption song, edged with genre overtones.(I enjoyed it)
