The Durban Book Fair takes place on the
first Sunday of every month at Mitchell Park in Durban. The aim is to promote
local writers and give them a platform to market their work. The next book fair
takes place on August 4, 2019.
Provisional Programme:
11h00 – 11h30: Sarita Mathur in
conversation with Nicole Rimensberger (Author of Witchfield) and Cristy Zinn (author of Dreamer's Tears and Magic of
Memory)
11h30 – 12h00: Launch of Awkward Energy by Matt Vend
12h00 – 12h30: Launch of Casbah to Candella - Those Days by Vino
Govender
12h30 – 13h00: In conversation with Deepak
Panday, author of Kings of Durban
13h00h- 13h30: Launch of Insights and Impressions of a Baratnathyam
Dancer by Surekha Singh
13h30 – 14h30: Launch of Clobet Valley by Terisha Govender
These writer's books are available for
order via www.hashtagbooks.co.za
Durban
Curry: This is Durban curry, continued ... a show
which has been running since the 1860s, when the first indentured labourers
came from India to work in the sugar cane plantations of then colonial Natal.
They brought spices, and seeds, and recipes. And when inevitably, the
influences and memories of the mother cuisine faded, Durban curry became its
own thing. Recognisably different from its roots: redder, hotter. More
tomatoes, more chillis. But growing in its new home-ground as it pleased.
Varying from cook to cook, chef to chef.
Chatsworth by Pravasen Pillay: Chatsworth
is Pillay's debut short fiction collection and consists of 11 stories set in the
sprawling township of Chatsworth, Durban. The stories are populated mostly by
working-class characters who all, in one way or the other, find themselves on
the margins of their community. There is an elderly mother and her dependent
obese daughter who must fend for themselves; an angst-filled 12-year-old girl
who secretly chain smokes late at night; a tearful man who is incapable of
passing his driving test; an albino girl who attains a fragile popularity in
high school; a young woman who - against her father's wishes - falls in love
with an immigrant; a seemingly placid pensioner who hides a shockingly violent
side; and a pair of girls who bond over a love letter and hair bleach, among
others. The stories present sensitive yet unsentimental portraits of these
characters, in prose that is spare and unadorned. a remarkable ear for
dialogue. Pillay additionally displays and faithfully captures much of the
nuance of Durban-Indian English. Chatsworth
is a gentle and moving book about growing up, different, but also about failing
at adulthood.
Insights
and Impressions of a Bharatanatyam Dancer: "This
is a sumptuous and important book on this ancient art form. Singh skilfully
weaves the gravitas of this classical and extremely demanding art form with the
mercuric vitality of dance. The book is abundant with the detail and intricacy
of Bharatanatyam and its powerful origins but manages to constantly remind the
reader of the joy, effervescence and fluidity of a dance form that lives and
thrives in so many parts of the world beyond India. Through well researched
historic detail, some compelling and vivid storytelling, evocative poetry and
an abundant use of impressionistic drawings and close-up photography, we are
made to re-look at this ancient form with a startling, contemporary
freshness." - Jay Pather, Associate Professor and Director, Institute for
Creative Arts,
Rare and Antiquarian books available at
www.hashtagbooks.co.za
In addition to books by local writers,
www.Hashtagbooks.co.za now offers a selection of rare and interesting books.
Visit the website today to view and order these collectable books and more:
My
Life and Times by J Paul Getty: First edition hardcover
Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: First Edition
Hardcover
Around
the world in 80 days & 20000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne: Leatherbound book
Visit website - www.hashtagbooks - to view
and order the books above.
For more information contact ripple-effect@mweb.co.za
or phone 083 778 1991 (25 hour sales hotline)
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