The Chameleon House, by Mellisa de Villiers
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The Chameleon House, by Mellisa de Villiers
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'... the past was not yet done with here, I thought to myself; its problems drip-fed into the present, muddying it endlessly.' South Africa in a time of transition: a world of shifting boundaries and fluid identities, under siege from the relentless power of the past. In this evocative and finely crafted debut collection, De Villiers deftly probes the ambiguities of this changing country. From the older woman with her much younger lover, trapped in Johannesburg traffic during 'load shedding' - the new leveler - to the 'gap year' graduates seeking some kind of permanence abroad, each story manages to contain entire worlds. These are lives of unconscious longing; of individuals - often willingly - cast adrift from their history, animated here in poetic yet pared-down prose.
The Chameleon House, by Mellisa de Villiers- Published on: 2015-03-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.27" h x .32" w x 5.83" l, .41 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. "The Chameleon House" by Melissa de Villiers By Amazon Customer In "The Chameleon House", one of the author's many skills is to employ simultaneously a telescope and a microscope in her writing about those who question their pasts and their futures. In "A Letter to Bianca", the central character recalls an apartheid South Africa on the verge of collapse: "The country was filled with a strange vibration; it shook like the skin of a drum." In a more intimate and revelatory moment, she sees: "...Disguised in the ripe shadows of the foliage, the shape of a marvellous creature, richly feathered and clawed, that I had not noticed before."The landscapes so vividly evoked in each story inform the character's discoveries about family, self and betrayal. In "The Inheritance", for example, a great fire in the Camdeboo area of South Africa reflects the narrator's inner turmoil. "...the hills were black and smouldering...there was still quite a lot of smoke... on the horizon, the highway snaked into another line of hills...it was beginning the get dark. I drove on... faster and faster, my hands shaking, sparks plucking at my heels."Memory is a motif throughout this rich collection. Additionally, de Villiers deftly balances nostalgic yearnings with a [sometimes reluctant] resolution to accept the present. In "Coelacanth", Anita (Annie) is given to musing: "A strange nostalgia... pushes me out to the secret places where I played as a child - the rusty garage roof, the coral tree...yet for all that... something pulls at me, something to do with the wide, electric world out there..."It is in one respect this "wide, electric world" with which de Villiers plays in this finely crafted collection that moves the reader from the smallest dust-bowl in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, to the brash bustle of Singapore. In perhaps the most powerful story of all nine on offer here, "Home", de Villiers wonders if one can "ever go home again", prefacing a tale of two sisters in Singapore with Horace's powerful declaration: "They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea." Whilst the two have "slipped straight back into the roles they'd played as children", it's clear that like us all, they are grappling for a common meeting ground, as de Villiers makes clear in her conclusion: "As she approached the campsite, she realised that she had no recollection of where her sister lay in the dark... slowly, then with mounting panic, she zigzagged through the maze of tents, hoping to see some familiar feature that would tell her she was home."A gem of a book, like a small gold ring inset with the deep greens of Africa and South East Asia.
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