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Fiction allows me to make up events that happened but feel emotionally true…House of Stone took me six years to write, about 17 drafts. My aim was to fail spectacularly rather than succeed safely

— Novuyo Tshuma

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"And though he beat the boy, it wasn’t really the boy he wanted to beat, but, it seemed to me, himself…"

I heard the stories from my father, passed down to him by his father, my grandfather, and which I shall one day pass down to my children.

House of Stone (2018)

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