It is the story of Tshepo, a young black man who, like Azure, lives in Cape Town, and, at some point, resorts to gay sex work for survival. ‘THE QUIET VIOLENCE OF DREAMS’ BY K SELLO DUIKERĭuiker’s next major book, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, (2001) contemplates this ambiguity of madness. Some readers consider Azure’s dreams and visions as evidence of a psychotic break others see it as Duiker’s masterful combination of hyperrealism and magical realism. The boy, however, possesses insight into a supernatural realm that offers possibilities beyond his confining circumstances. Readers of his award-winning Thirteen Cents (2000) will attest to the haunting power of his exploration of coming of age in post-apartheid Cape Town as a street child.Īzure, the 13-year-old blue-eyed black protagonist of the novel, is an orphan forced to fend for himself in a ruthless city still riddled with the unrelenting inequalities of race.
One or more of these appear in each of the three novels he wrote.
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