RIVER: freedom comes slowly

“”The author’s style is compelling… not just a story, but a journey”” – Geraldine Nyika, critic and editor A mysterious dream-like start… a seemingly innocuous question… the shadow of hidden trauma – these are the intriguing elements that open Simon Cole’s scorching new novel RIVER , in which middle-class academia gives way to the vicious oppression of apartheid South Africa, comfortable young lives in England cast into the cauldron of brutal racial discrimination and violence… Harry , or is it Richard? the liberal product of a post-war university boom Emmanuel , the intense and committed advocate of freedom Nobomi , the enigmatic young African woman, whose name means Life, and whose own path seems somehow interlocked the River itself , gaining force and depth on its way to the Ocean, the Indian Ocean, a few miles only from where the drama began In this vivid and gripping story we are challenged in our assumptions and our beliefs, in our eagerness for certainty, and our willingness to be deluded… because it is a story of profound depth, as well as a nail-biting roller-coaster that leaves us facing the enigma of the recurring dream. —- ISBN: 9798324009090