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HIGH LOW IN-BETWEEN
Fiction (Literary Fiction)
Umuzi / Random House SA - June 2009
Winner of the 2010 UJ Prize
Winner of the 2010 SA Sunday Times Fiction Prize
‘A wise book, full of provocative insights.’ -- Vikas Swarup, author of Slumdog Millionaire.
The violent death of her biologist husband forces his wife Nafisa into a world of illegal organ transplants, bribery, and scientific and political controversy. With an acute sense of the disruptions of contemporary South Africa, and its keen feeling for love and loss, High Low In-between reveals Nafisa’s relationships with the people close to her and the anarchic currents of life and death she discovers. -
GREEN-EYED THIEVES
Fiction (Literary Fiction) 208 pages
Umuzi / Random House SA - June 9, 2006
Shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Awards 2007
A daring novel of divided selves and cultures, inspired crime and brotherly betrayal, written in scintillating prose. Moving from Johannesburg to Pakistan to New York, the story centres on the green-eyed Dawood family of Johannesburg, in particular twin brothers Ashraf and Firoze.
‘Amusing and complicated a la Rushdie… a highly original work.’ -- Jane Rosenthal, Mail and Guardian (picked as one of two best SA books of 2006)
'A larger-than-life comic tale of outstanding craftsmanship. Coovadia‘s dare-devil identical twins make the novel fresh, Durban-curry-hot, racy and edgy.' The Sunday Independent
Biography
Imraan grew up in Durban, South Africa. A Harvard and Yale graduate, he has been Assistant Professor of Writing at Adelphi University, New York. His stories have been published in the Threepenny Review and N+1 magazine, among others. He is Associate Professor in the University of Cape Town’s English department, and as an academic has worked extensively on Adam Smith, George Eliot, V.S. Naipaul and Vladimir Nabokov. He is completing a new novel and a short story collection.
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