Reviews
END – The Mail and Guardian
by Barbara on Apr.12, 2010, under Reviews
Mail and Guardian, 2009 - Shaun de Waal
End by Barbara Adair (Jacana) (continue reading…)
In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot – This Day, 2004
by Barbara on Mar.23, 2010, under Reviews
END – Barbara Adair & the Wow Factor – Fred de Vries, Empire, July 2008
by Barbara on Aug.26, 2009, under Reviews
A case of commercial suicide? Barbara Adair’s second novel, End, uses the story of the 1942 movie Casablanca, but situates it in the Mozambique and Johannesburg of the late 80s, with odd references to Hector Pieterson, cell phones, Nigerians in Hillbrow and the Rosebank Hotel as a hangout for rightwing extremist where a black pianist plays Nkosi sikelel iAfrika.
“Will it have a wow finish?” asks the front cover. Well, it ends somewhere in Mozambique with Princess Di in a blue Versace dress being shot and killed. (continue reading…)
END – The Sunday Independent – 2008
by Barbara on Aug.26, 2009, under Reviews
