An Afternoon with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Friday, April 9, at 2:00 pm EDT
Mercer University welcomes Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu for a reading and discussion of her book The Theory of Flight. The Theory of Flight is an award-winning novel set in an unnamed country in southern Africa. With the lightest of touches and an overlay of magical-realist beauty, this novel sketches, through the lives of a few families and the fate of a single patch of ground, decades of national history from colonial occupation through the freedom struggle.
The South African release of the novel earned Siphiwe the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, and in a starred review, Publishers Weekly praised the novel, writing, "This transcendent and powerful testament to the indomitable human spirit is not to be missed."