All That Is Left by Kirsten Miller
2020
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.2 | 272 pages

About the book:

When Rachel’s brother disappears under mysterious circumstances, she must come to terms with his apparent death, though there is no body. She travels to Joburg to support her sisterinlaw, Maya, with the memorial – also to escape her stifling life as a wife and mother. Rachel is unsettled when Max, her exlover, arrives. Despite poet Sizwe’s efforts to steady her, Rachel reels from grief and longing. Then Rachel, Maya, Max and Sizwe are involved in a confrontation that will change them forever. All That is Left is a story of loss, love and betrayal, of acceptance and letting go. It captures internal conflicts in South Africa, the personal and political pains of both the past and the imagined future.

About the author:

Kirsten Miller is the author of four novels: All is Fish (Jacana 2007), which was shortlisted for the Jacana/EU Literary Award, Sister Moon (Umuzi 2014), The Hum of the Sun (Kwela 2018), which won the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation’s Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript and was long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award, and All That Is Left (Kwela 2020).  Her non-fiction book, Children on the Bridge (Jacana 2006), about her early experiences working in the field of autism, was long-listed for the Alan Paton/Sunday Times Award. She lives in Durban.