Crossing Over: Stories for a New South Africa

by Linda Rode, Jakes Gerwel (Compiler)

Overview

This collection of 26 new short stories by well-known as well as new South African writers focuses on the world of young people entering adulthood amidst the wide-ranging changes in South Africa in the 1990s. The stories range from serious to light-hearted, some dealing with politics, others with personal experiences like being in love. Together the stories portray a wide variety of the experiences of young people before, during, and after the crucial elections of April 1994. The stories are organized chronologically according to the time in which they are set.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780795700019
Publisher:	NB Publishers
Publication date:	03/15/2010
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

LINDA RODE was born in Ladismith, Western Cape. She studied at Stellenbosch University, where she obtained an Honours degree in German and a Teacher's Diploma. She taught school in Calvinia, in Hermannsburg, at the Pionierskool in Worcester (school for the blind) and at Herzlia in Cape Town and works as a free-lance translator for publishers. Linda is married to Erwin Rode. They live in Bellville and have two children.