AUTHOR INTERVIEW: An amusing story that avoids the standard ‘troubled country’ story lines
Author Vincent Pienaar tells Diane de Beer why he is experiencing his own tsunami with his latest book ‘Too Many Tsunamis — a tale of love, light and incidental humour’
06 June 2019 - 05:07
With the title Too Many Tsunamis — a tale of love, light, and incidental humour and an opening sentence that deals with suicide — more the dilemma of being or not being — author Vincent Pienaar’s latest book is hard to resist.
If you don’t know who this journalist/writer is, he gives some clues with a dedication that includes names like Gabriel García Márquez, Etienne Leroux, Damon Runyon, Eugène Marais, Virginia Woolf, Elmore Leonard, Akira Kurosawa, Lennon-McCartney and Harrison for the opening chord of A Hard Day’s Night and more...
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