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- Yes it’s bursting with humour, warmth and sensitivity but it also brims with finely nuanced themes about the experience of the outsider and the nature of man’s capacity to forgive. Omotoso adroitly places the story of reconciliation between two individuals within a broader theme of reconciliation with the past of a nation.
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May 5, 2016 · The Woman Next Door is a story about the years-long feud between two neighbours, Marion and Hortensia, living in post-apartheid South Africa. While Hortensia is a woman of color, grumpy and angry at life, Marion is a racist, white snob.
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The Woman Next Door is a 2016 novel written by Yewande Omotoso and published by Chatto and Windus in the United Kingdom, Picador in the United States, Farafina in Nigeria and Penguin Random House in South Africa. It was Omotoso's second novel.
The Woman Next Door is a thought-provoking representation of timely issues, peppered with smart humor and unforgettably fantastic female protagonists." —The Riveter. "Cape Town's answer to Mapp and Lucia, a war of wits and witticisms amid the bougainvillea of an impossibly smug neighborhood.
Jan 18, 2017 · Omotoso approaches the theme of age throughout this novel with great skill, despite only being in her thirties herself: issues of aging, death, and relationships are dealt with in a refreshingly honest way.
Feb 7, 2017 · "The Woman Next Door" by Yewande Omotoso is deeply thoughtful: There are the beliefs about race owned by South African society, there is memory, there is marriage and the breaking of marriages and there are the unexpected moments of pain which come upon us.
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Barbadian born, and South African based, writer Yewande Omotoso makes a wonderful US debut with The Woman Next Door. Omotoso provides a fascinating look at life in South Africa, both during and post-apartheid. Even more wonderful is the balanced way she provides this look.
Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them.
