“I think let’s take Table Mountain off the table — which I have,” concedes Shehan Karunatilaka as he settles into an outdoor seat at MRKT, the coffee shop at the Onyx Hotel on Cape Town’s Foreshore where the Booker Prize winner and his family have been staying while in the city.

Our lunch date, initially scheduled for 1.30pm, has been brought forward by two hours in the hope that Karunatilaka would be able to join his wife and two young children up the mountain before their early-evening flight to Johannesburg for the final leg of his almost two-week SA tour...

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