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Cape buys South African debut
Ellah Allfrey at Jonathan Cape has bought a debut novel from this year's shortlist for the Caine Prize for African Writing from David Godwin at DGA.
For the Love of Stick Men by Johannesburg-based writer Gill Schierhout is set in the South African mines in the early 1900s and tells the story of a boarding house manageress and her relationship with a one-time diamond digger. Allfrey descibes Schierhout as "a serious writer whose spare, exquisitely crafted prose places her deservedly in the tradition of South African writers such as J M Coetzee and Marlene van Niekerk".
Godwin said the debut was "one of the best first novels I have read in my 30 years of publishing and agenting". Allfrey acquired UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada and plans to publish in June 2009.
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