First published by Random House Umuzi in South Africa this June before Indian rights were sold to HarperCollins, HIGH LOW IN-BETWEEN received the following quote from Q&A (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE) author Vikas Swarup: 'A wise book, full of provocative insights.'

And Antjie Krog, author of COUNTRY OF MY SKULL says: 'Imraan Coovadia has a unique and marvellously talented voice. HIGH LOW IN-BETWEEN effortlessly extended my capacity to imagine the moral inner world of the kind of character I often wonder about.'

HIGH LOW IN-BETWEEN is a sharp, human, finely written novel, the first significant book to deal so boldly with South Africa's AIDS crisis, and the first book since Naipaul's A BEND IN THE RIVER to deal so provocatively with the consciousness of Indians in Africa. Set in Durban's Indian community, we follow a family in the aftermath of the death of an eminent virologist, who was critical of the government's denialist policies. Sharky returns from America for his father's seventieth birthday party - but instead finds himself attending a traditional Muslim burial, and questioning whether his father's bullet wound was self-inflicted. And if not, then who pulled the trigger? After years abroad, Sharky is re-introduced to a not-so-New South Africa in which fresh tensions have replaced the old division between black and white. Coovadia creates intriguingly human characters grappling with the pressure of politics, communities feeling the shocks of their complex shared history.

Imraan Coovadia grew up in Durban, South Africa. A Harvard and Yale graduate, he taught at Adelphi University, New York, and now teaches at the University of Cape Town. His earlier novel GREEN-EYED THIEVES was a runner-up for the SA Sunday Times Literary Prize 2007 and was also shortlisted for the M-Net Prize 2007.

For more information please visit Imraan's BFLA author page.