Twenty-six recent South African stories by well-known and new South African writers, reflecting the reality of young people entering adulthood amidst the wide-ranging changes in South Africa today.
There are serious and light-hearted stories, some dealing with politics, others with universal human experiences, like being in love. The spectrum of writers is as representative of the SA community as history allows at the moment; aspects of the experience of just about every social sector is described. With some of stories translated from Afrikaans, Crossing Over spans the traditional divide between language and colour groups in the country and provides an inclusive and varied record of one of the most fascinating times in our history.
- Each story has a photograph and short CV of the author
- Also available in Afrikaans as Keerpunt
- A Teacher's Guide is available to both language editions
"This is fiction as immediate as a smoking gun and autobiography as urgent as the confessional. It has the documentary veracity of country undergoing rapid change. It evokes a certain time, a special place, a specific memory." The Sunday Independent
The compilers:
Jakes Gerwel, former Director in the Office of the President, is currently special professor at UCT.
Linda Rode has compiled various prize-winning anthologies, among others Stories South of the Sun and the Young South African Writing series, 1 and 2: Another kind of one nation (1996) and I, a living arrow (1998).