SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Wayne and I are reading Indaba My Children by South African author Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa in March. Please feel free to join us!

We're starting on this on 7 March and will be taking it slowly. Anyone welcome to join us.

Hi Carolien and others, I have started. First I would like to confirm editions. I am reading , published in 1966 by Stanmore Press Ltd, and only has 363 pages. GR has up front, which has 696 pages. It is listed as paperback, but sounds more like a kindle to me.

Wayne wrote: "Hi Carolien and others, I have started. First I would like to confirm editions. I am reading , published in 1966 by Stanmore Press Ltd, and ..."

Well this is fun. I had a look at the second edition which is a Kindle and it seems to have more stories than my original, hardcover copy. There are some poems in this edition that is definitely not in my copy.

I have this one: . The first story in mine is The Spawn of the Dragon. The Kindle one starts with a poem called This I Choose. There is nothing in the introduction to explain the different contents.

Hahahaha, we are on the same page. posted the wrong image. IJust read The Spawn of the Dragon. Quite a rich story.

Wayne wrote: "Hahahaha, we are on the same page. posted the wrong image. IJust read The Spawn of the Dragon. Quite a rich story."

As long as we are on the same edition, I'm going to assume it's the original and ignore the Kindle version

Hi Carolien, I just finished Indaba, My Children: African Tribal History, Legends, Customs and Religious Beliefs. How far are you? I was actually very impressed with it, and really liked how the author managed to to capture the spirit of of story-telling in the various tales.

It's been going really slowly between work and packing. I'm enjoying the few stories I have managed to far, but it will take me the rest of the month to get there.

I agree the tone contributes to the story-telling atmosphere, you can imagine these being told around a fire somewhere.

I was thinking about the packing, quite sure it is a hectic process.