NPR’s Book News: "The Expedition To The Baobab Tree"
NPR mentioned Guernica’s excerpt of The Expedition to the Baobab Tree in its Book News!
For Guernica, J.M. Coetzee translates Wilma Stockenström’s story The Expedition to the Baobab Tree from Afrikaans: “A few days ago I had seen the hammerhead shark leaping in spasms there on the beach where fish-drying racks cast their grid shadows. It was trying to lift its whole body up from the sand as if wanting to swim upwards into the sky. Sometimes one eye was buried in the sand, sometimes the other; one saw doom, the other spied hope, and in uncertainty the poor thing struggled. Spasmodic jerks, fanatical till death, eyes that till death bisected the world.”
