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13 South Africans tell their story. The tales of people you will find between these pages are exemplary, illuminating the many hues of estrangement and adaptation, ultimately of survival. It is remarkable and admirable that the story should have been written by a Swiss citizen, from a country which is by definition perhaps the last prone to exile! Exile, as J.M. le Clezio famously remarked, is to be leaving your island of “belonging” for the continental shores of facelessness. It may lead to a living death where the hands of the clock will be pointing forever at the hour of departure from your native soil; it may take you to a land where memory will be used as soap to wash your compulsively dirty hands; it may embalm you in the sickly treacle of self-pity…Or it may be a treat, an escape, a wonderful delivery from the narrow- mindedness of “home”, a chance to become fully human, the way towards confrontation with that unknown which will enrich and sharpen your mind.
Author: Marie-Noelle Anderson
