The World Unseen - Softcover

Sarif, Shamim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956031609 ISBN 13: 9780956031600

Publisher: Enlightenment, 2008

Synopsis

In 1950's South Africa, free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob her 'coloured' business partner. When she meets Miriam, a young wife and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question the rules that bind her and a chain of events is set in motion that changes both women forever. The World Unseen transports us to a vibrant, colourful world, a world that divides white from black and women from men, but one that might just allow an unexpected love to survive.

About this title

About the Author:

Shamim Sarif recently directed the motion picture adaptation of I Can’t Think Straight. She is also the writer/director of the award-winning feature film, The World Unseen, which is based on her novel of
the same name. She has won several Best Director Awards including a prestigious SAFTA award.
The book of The World Unseen won the Pendleton May First Novel Award and a Betty Trask
Award. She is the author of a further novel, Despite the Falling Snow. She lives in London with her partner Hanan and their two children.

Review:

            It is an impressive debut. Sarif's story brings together the descriptive power of the novelist with the screenwriter's mastery of dialogue."
--The Times

        "I read The World Unseen at a gulp, so entrancing is it's style, so complete it's tale of love and betrayal, and so accurate it's depiction of the physical, social and political scene..."
--Johannesburg Star - Book of the Week

   "Sarif's elegant and understated debut eschews emotional fireworks, and offers an unusual insight into early apartheid . . . a novel that lives up to its title"
--The Times - Play

   "In the tradition of Vikram Seth, Sarif throws down a literary gauntlet that very few writers will be able to pick and return with any conviction." Pride

--Pride

   "This is a stylishly written work. Sarif is near faultless."
--India Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Enlightenment
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0956031609
• ISBN 13: 9780956031600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344