Emergency Continued

Emergency Continued takes as its starting point the tense relationship between older and younger generations of South African blacks in their decades long struggle against racism. A father's search for his runaway son carries the older man on a journey through the confusion and violence that marked the closing years of apartheid.

Richard Rive is one of South Africa's most important black writers, giving a nuanced and humane view of family tensions in the face of oppression. Tragically his ho...