My Shadow By Bryan Rostron

All Books are second hand
Bryan Rostron
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My Shadow is set in a town ‘in the far south’ identified only as G-, in an unnamed
country that one assumes to be South Africa – or would so assume if it seemed to matter,
which it doesn’t.
The fact that the protagonist-narrator is placed under house arrest ‘under the State of
Emergency’ does of course recall recent South African history, but the allusion is
complicated by the fact that the author quite explicitly directs us to a non-South African
source, in that the protagonist’s ‘crime,’ in so far as it is ever identified, is participation in
a reading of Vaclav Havel’s one-act play Audience.