I cannot think of another country in the world where a book fair could generate so much racial unease. From book festivals in Franschhoek and Cape Town to book stores in the leafy suburbs of Johannesburg, I have heard the murmurs, and sometimes a loud pronouncement, at book events that the audience is too white.

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