EP4: I spy A Spy in Time

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Author’s Lockdown: T minus 18: Today’s guest on the Amabookabooka: Quarantine Chronicles is one of the best novelists to come out of South Africa. And if you don’t believe us ask Gary Shteyngart - that’s what the Super Sad True Love Story author said of Imraan Coovadia, adding that his prose is “charming, clever and sly”.

Imraan’s latest novel, A spy in Time, features a post-apocalyptic future, time travel, secret agencies all rolled into an intriguing, entertaining and thought-provoking tale in which the course of human history hangs in the balance. If Enver Eleven, the central figure in A Spy in Time, was around in the time of Covid-19 he could have saved the world a whole lot of trouble.

30 Mar 2020 6AM English Explicit South Africa Books · Arts Jonathan Ancer

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