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The reactive a novel

"Gritty and revealing, Ntshanga's debut novel offers a brazen portrait of present-day South Africa. This is an eye-opening, ambitious novel."--blishers Weekly

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Main Author:	Ntshanga, Masande, 1986-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus, OH : Two Dollar Radio, 2016.
Subjects:	Drug addiction > Fiction. Cape Town (South Africa) > Fiction.
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Summary:	"Gritty and revealing, Ntshanga's debut novel offers a brazen portrait of present-day South Africa. This is an eye-opening, ambitious novel."--blishers Weekly
Physical Description:	161 p.
ISBN:	9781937512439 1937512436
Author Notes:	Masande Ntshanga is the author of the acclaimed novels The Reactive , shortlisted for the 2015 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and longlisted for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature, and Triangulum , shortlisted for the 2020 Nomo Awards for Best Novel. He is the winner of the Betty Trask Award (2018), winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review , Chimurenga , VICE and n + 1 . He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine.