The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies

A darkly comic and surreal literary novel set in a South African township, where a young crematorium worker and obituarist navigates family betrayal, mythic beasts, and the blurred line between rumor, grief, and survival

A crematorium nightshift, a township in revolt, and a young obituarist haunted by ghosts—living, dead, and imagined. Welcome to Ward 52, where nothing stays buried for long.

Mxabanisi Bulawayo, twenty-one and already burnt out, spends his nights tending the fires at Despatch...