Screens Against the Sky Elleke Boehmer

Elleke Boehmer's highly praised Screens Against the Sky gives an aching portrait of an obsessive mother-daughter relationship that at the same time reverberates with its wider South African apartheid dimensions. Claustrophobia within the Rudolphs' home repeats the stifling situation in the country at large-till at last Annemarie breaks free, only to find that her mother Sylvie is still by her side. 'An astonishing debut ... swift, deft ... expertly told ... with a mordant wit' (Sunday Times). 'Eloquently expressive' (The Guardian).