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October is a 2014 novel by Zoë Wicomb. Wicomb, who won a 2013 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, is originally from Namaqualand, South Africa, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde.October is the story of Mercia Murray, a Read More..

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Description	October is a 2014 novel by Zoë Wicomb. Wicomb, who won a 2013 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, is originally from Namaqualand, South Africa, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde.October is the story of Mercia Murray, a professor in Glasgow, who returns to Kliprand, Namaqualand in South Africa when her brother, Jake, writes her to come home and get his son, Nicky. The themes are homemaking, exile, return and race. Quadrapheme: 21st Century Literature has noted that OctoberEleanor Franzen, "OCTOBER ZOË WICOMB", Quadrapheme: 21st Century Literature, July 2014. is a story about homecoming, a story about home, a story about belonging, not-belonging, women and children, class and race and education, motherhood and fatherhood.Neel Mukherjee, "Homing instinct: October by Zoë Wicomb" (review), New Statesman, 26 June 2014.Asked by Anna James to sum up the book in three words, Zoë Wicomb answered, "Home, deracination, family secrets." 10 Questions: Zoe Wicomb \| We Love This Book
Description	October is a 2014 novel by Zoë Wicomb. Wicomb, who won a 2013 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, is originally from Namaqualand, South Africa, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde.October is the story of Mercia Murray, a professor in Glasgow, who returns to Kliprand, Namaqualand in South Africa when her brother, Jake, writes her to come home and get his son, Nicky. The themes are homemaking, exile, return and race. Quadrapheme: 21st Century Literature has noted that OctoberEleanor Franzen, "OCTOBER ZOË WICOMB", Quadrapheme: 21st Century Literature, July 2014. is a story about homecoming, a story about home, a story about belonging, not-belonging, women and children, class and race and education, motherhood and fatherhood.Neel Mukherjee, "Homing instinct: October by Zoë Wicomb" (review), New Statesman, 26 June 2014.Asked by Anna James to sum up the book in three words, Zoë Wicomb answered, "Home, deracination, family secrets." 10 Questions: Zoe Wicomb \| We Love This Book

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Pages	239 (first edition, hardback)
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Isbn	978-1-59558-962-0
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