We Belong to the Trees: A Novel

In this multi-layered debut novel, Keletso Mopai dives into the world of post-apartheid South Africa in a small town, where a devastating act of racial violence shocks the community.

On a farm in Tzaneen, an Afrikaner town in Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, Maluka, a young Black security guard, steps into trouble with the family for whom he works. Set against the backdrop of a post-Mandela, multi-racial South Africa in the mid-1990s, this novel follows a range of characte...