The story of a dysfunctional family living in the poor white suburb of Triomf, built on the ruins of the black community of Sophiatown, just before South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, Triomf is at once horrendous and hilarious, or as one spectator put it, "a lekker, scary, funny movie!".

Triomf is published by Little Brown in the UK and has been sold to six territories worldwide. A New York Times Notable Book, 2004. Winner: C.N.A. Literary Award, M-Net Prize and Noma Award. For more information on Marlene's work, please see here.

The citation for Triomf, by Junaid Ahmed at the awards ceremony, sums up the film's appeal:  "Triomf exposes a series of universal truths. The dirty secrets of capitalism, of racism, of manipulative politics, of the human heart are mirrored in the secrets of one family, whose disastrous disintegration reminds us that a nation's history is written by individuals."