Transformations: Essays 9781785570636 And now that they have

And now that they have their magical football they're playing against teams they never imagined

He knows exactly what to do

acclaimed biographer of Lenin

Seventeen-year-old Nina doesn't get why everyone's obsessed with The Point - but when she averts a backstage disaster and is offered a job on tour

Transformations: Essays 9781785570636 And now that they haveWhat does Playboy have to do with Nabokovs infamous novel Lolita and his obsession with a butterfly? Why is Shrien Dewani looking so cheap? And what can Ovids Metamorphosis show us about contemporary South African society? Imraan Coovadias Transformations is a collection of short pieces in the tradition of the essayist: exciting, probing, intelligent and readable. The essays are on writing, politics and culture from a South African perspective.