Praise for October : "Wicomb adeptly navigates time, place, and the minds of various characters to illustrate the impact of apartheid on one family." —The New Yorker One of Flavorwire's 10 Must-Read Books for March 2014 "Wicomb (Playing in the Light) contemplates the meaning of family, the limits of forgiveness, and the deep responsibilities of having children. [October] provides an insightful look at how 'memory is bound up with place,' and at what it means to return home." —Publishers Weekly Praise for Zoë Wicomb: "An extraordinary writer. Zoe Wicomb has mined pure gold from that place [South Africa]—seductive, brilliant, and precious, her talent glitters." —Toni Morrison "Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on a par with Nadine Gordimer." —The Wall Street Journal "A sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography." —Bharati Mukherjee, The New York Times Praise for Playing in the Light : "Post-apartheid South Africa is indeed a new world. . . . With this novel, Wicomb proves a keen guide." —The New York Times "Delectable. . . . Wicomb's prose is as delightful and satisfying in its culmination as watching the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean." —The Christian Science Monitor "[A] thoughtful, poetic novel." —The Times (London) "Deep and subtle. . . . This tight, dense novel gives complex history a human face." —Kirkus Praise for The One That Got Away : "Combine[s] the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth." —J.M. Coetzee