![]() ![]() Desperate for an income, he finds work at a male massage parlour, using the pseudonym Angelo. The relationship with his flatmate deteriorates and Tshepo loses his job at the Waterfront. ![]() He now works as a waiter and shares an apartment with a newly released prisoner. He escapes but is returned to the hospital and completes his rehabilitation, earns his release - and promptly terminates his studies. The plot revolves around Tshepo, a student at Rhodes, who gets confined to a Cape Town mental institution after an episode of 'cannabis-induced psychosis'. The Quiet Violence of Dreams is set in Cape Town's cosmopolitan neighbourhoods - Observatory, Mowbray and Sea Point - where subcultures thrive and alternative lifestyles are tolerated. ![]() In doing so, he ventures into unexplored areas and takes local writing in English to places it hasn't been before. In this daring novel, the author gives a startling account of the inner workings of contemporary South African urban culture. ![]()
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