The One That Got Away: Short Stories

Short stories from the award-winning South African author, which J.M. Coetzee says “combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth.”

Zoë Wicomb’s debut short story collection, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, won critical acclaim across the globe as well as high praise from fellow authors including Toni Morrison, J. M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Then, after two novels, Wicomb returned to the genre that first brought he...