Fathers and Fugitives : When a Book Travels North in a New Language
I have just made my debut in the U.S. with my novel Fathers and Fugitives, a book that garnered praise and won prizes in South Africa, but has, until recently, been unknown to readers in America, as am I as a writer. Unless you live in the English-speaking world, and unless your book is written in English, you initially have a relatively small potential readership...