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the Book: Lila, her husband Lunga, and Tau (their little boy) are driving through the Karoo when they are involved in an accident. Lunga goes through the windscreen, Tau lands safely in his car seat and Lila suffers a severe head injury. Lila moves in and out of consciousness and as she does so we move with her in a journey to find her name, and who she is. By turns laugh-aloud funny and unbearably poignant Gillian Schutte constructs (or deconstructs, destructs and reconstructs) Lila's story from flashes of history as she falls through time to meet her eighteenth century ancestors and becomes embroiled in their reality. For more recent life story she is given her diary to read when she finds herself in a white hospital room from which she struggles to escape. And all the while, as she surfaces and sinks, Lila the writer, the wife, the mother, the daughter, meets characters from fiction and biography who help or hinder her in her quest to find herself, to keep her son safe and to put her husband back together again. A real treat awaits the reader of After just now. I can only give a small indication of the complexity and texture of this finely crafted novel. Despite its intricacy it's easy to read and it doesn't take long to suspend disbelief and follow wherever we are led next. Add to this the fact that it's wonderfully witty (in an advanced Jasper Ffordish kind of way!) and you have a book that you'll devour in one sitting and then return to over and over again – for the sheer pleasure of it. – Maire Fisher An effortlessly poetic narrative that is playfully subversive, resonant and topical within the South African context. The writer's joy of narrative and love of palimpsest is palpable in this daring and sometimes terrifyingly fast storytelling. Her writing performs the fluid multiplicity of feminine sexuality in the style of 'writing from the body' (écriture feminine.) Exuberant, poignant, grotesque, visceral, and deliciously sexy. |
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About the Author: Gillian Schutte is a prolific writer and documentary filmmaker. She founded the human rights online forum Media for Justice Her film, Umgidi, which she produced, edited and co-directed with her husband Sipho Singiswa, won the top Award of Excellence at the American Anthropological Association's SVS Film and Video Festival in Washington 2005. Gillian writes critical essays, short stories, columns, film reviews and developmental & human rights articles for a variety of publications. Her poetry has been collected in an anthology called 5 (Five South African Poets) Botsotso 1998 and she has just published her first novel -After Just Now (Ludic Press 2011) For more information: www.handheldfilms.co.za – www.mediaforjustice.net, or visit her blog on http://gillianschutte.co.za/blog/ |
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