Books - A Series of Undesirable Events

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Set in Cape Town, 'A Series of Undesirable Events' weaves together six stories of close friends, each dealing with an unfortunate event.  The author presents what may have been one story in fragments that each tackles, social challenges such as infidelity, violence, HIV/AIDS and sexuality.  There's also a strong focus on the complexities of dreams and aspirations; on just how insincere some dreams and aspirations tend to be.  Moshe, the protagonist is in at least three stories, gives us glimpses of the disadvantages experienced by an individual who does not intimately know his dreams.  The result of such negligence ultimately breeds an internal conflict that only Moshe can address.  Like facial make-up that gets applied and removed later, this book reflects application of "make-up" on many levels of the society including attitudes.  But the truth always comes out in the end.
A Series of Undesirable Events was written using a Sony Ericsson K800i cell phone, in a successive creation of MMS texts.  These texts were created wherever the inspiration to write the manuscript emerged.  In fact, the ideas for the opening story, An Old Flame That Went Out, were written by the author upon waking up from a dream.  This illustrates the versatility of modern technology despite not being designed to fulfil certain roles; in this case writing a book.
"This is a series of linked short stories with interesting characters and which deal with topics such as AIDS and infidelity.  This author shows exceptional talent and I would like to recommend this manuscript for funding..."  A reviewer from Centre for the Book

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