Praise for October : "Wicomb adeptly navigates time, place, and the minds of various characters to illustrate the impact of apartheid on one family." -- The New Yorker One of Flavorwire's 10 Must-Read Books for March 2014 "Wicomb ( Playing in the Light ) contemplates the meaning of family, the limits of forgiveness, and the deep responsibilities of having children. [ October ] provides an insightful look at how 'memory is bound up with place,' and at what it means to return home." -- Publishers Weekly Praise for Zoë Wicomb : "An extraordinary writer. Zoe Wicomb has mined pure gold from that place [South Africa]--seductive, brilliant, and precious, her talent glitters." --Toni Morrison "Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on a par with Nadine Gordimer." -- The Wall Street Journal "A sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography." --Bharati Mukherjee, The New York Times Praise for Playing in the Light : "Post-apartheid South Africa is indeed a new world.

With this novel, Wicomb proves a keen guide." -- The New York Times "Delectable. Wicomb's prose is as delightful and satisfying in its culmination as watching the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean." -- The Christian Science Monitor "[A] thoughtful, poetic novel." -- The Times (London) "Deep and subtle. This tight, dense novel gives complex history a human face." -- Kirkus Praise for The One That Got Away : "Combine[s] the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider's intimate warmth." --J.

M. Coetzee.