Ababalisi bangoku bayathanda UColson Whitehead o Brit ubennett Benza into enkulu ngokubhekisele kubuhlanga njengengxabano. Kumalunga nokuphuphuma kolo lwazi lomahluko njengento yendalo. Nangakumbi ukusuka kumanyathelo okuqwalasela ngokuchaseneyo. UMichael Jackson akazange afune ukuba mnyama, sonke sicacile ngaloo nto. Umbuzo kukufumanisa ukuba yintoni eshukumisela umntu ukuba azame ukukrazula ulusu lwakhe, afune ukulangazelela ukunyamalala kobuntu bakhe njengexesha elidluleyo elimnyama ukuze alibale.
Ityala lokuzibek’ ityala sesona sigwebo sibi kakhulu kuba nguye ozigwebela ukuzulazula nobo bunzima bokuphila bukwazi ukutshonisa iinyawo zakhe emhlabeni de angakwazi ukuhamba okanye angcwatywe. Inoveli efana nale yenza umfuziselo weli shwangusha lokucingelwa ukuba ungowohlanga olukumgangatho ophantsi nokuzama ukuphuncuka kulo ngokuzilibala. Iziphumo aziqikeleleki njengoko zihlukaniswa. Eso sizathu sokuba ibali lala mantombazana mabini lisishukumise ngaphakathi njengoko umfanekiso omtsha wocalucalulo usabambekile kumacala omabini emeko efanayo yokuba...
Izizukulwana ngezizukulwana, abantu abantsundu kwidolophu yaseMallard, eLouisiana, baye bazama ukwenza lula ulusu lwabo ngokukhetha imitshato exubeneyo. Amawele angenakuhlukaniswa uDesirée noStella Vignes, abanombala wekhephu, amehlo abo amdaka kunye neenwele zabo ezinamaza, bangumzekelo omhle woku.
Ngokwahlukileyo yaye ngokufanayo, bagqiba kwelokuba babaleke kunye kwidolophu encinane, bekholelwa ukuba nabo banokusaba egazini labo. Kwiminyaka kamva nangaphambi kokuba wonk’ ubani akhangele emangalisiwe, uDesireé ubuya ekhatshwa yintombazana emnyama njengamalahle. Akazange eve kuStella ixesha elide, emva kokuba ethathe isigqibo sokunyamalala kwaye wayilahla ngokuqinisekileyo imvelaphi yakhe ukuze aphile obunye ubomi njengomfazi omhlophe.
Edunyiswa njengendlalifa efanelekileyo kaToni Morrison noJames Baldwin, uBrit Bennett sesinye sezityhilelo ezinkulu zoncwadi lwase-Afrika-lwaseMelika kutsha nje.
Ngoku ungathenga inoveli ethi “The Vanishing Half” nguBrit Bennett apha:
