Vincent Gray: 30 books

This is a short story dealing with the Sisyphean struggles associated with the passionate commitment to one's life project which in a sense is linked to the attainment of personal authenticity, it is about living a life centred around 'doing' rather than 'having'. It deals with the personal emotional costs of following one's dreams.

A lipstick lesbian who is a radical feminist joins the communist party not knowing that her every move is under constant surveillance, but she is saved from arrest by the security police by the intervention of the most unlikely guardian angel.

After six years of self-imposed exile as a teacher in Swaziland who is also a correspondence student studying Hebrew returns to South Africa shortly after the June 16th Soweto youth uprising in 1976. She has returned to complete the research for her MA degree which involves a philological analysis...

Under the veil of night multiracial love in apartheid South Africa with all its painfulness exists as a transient shadow for two women before withering away in the dawn of a new day.

While meeting Segomotso changed Joab's life forever that strange magical meeting was only part of Joab's story. The story of the 'Dress Maker' is also a story of his deconstructive reading of John Calvin. Joab's reading of Calvin's work takes the texts apart along the structural 'fault lines' created...

While the narrator’s story centres on a young teenage Lolita. The story also includes school yard narratives and school boy folk wisdom regarding strategy, tactics, manoeuvres, persuasion and the overall methodology for the guaranteed, successful and fool-proof gaining of access to physical intimacy...

A strange and unlikely romance begins on a night-train journey, the romance fraught with deception, contradictions and comedy borders on farce. The love between the two individuals requires them to negotiate impossible obstacles, and all the time the Rabbi remains completely oblivious of his beautiful wife's secret love life.

A young black woman desperately seeking work is forced by economic circumstances to accept the position as a domestic servant in the employment of two postgraduate students studying at the University of Potchefstroom who live in a cottage hidden among acacia trees at the edge of town. A relationship...

This collection of short stories captures the diversity and uniqueness of the life experiences of young people within a South African setting over-shadowed by the grim realities of apartheid.

How could a feminine conscious self-awareness arise from the material constituents out of which the Universe was composed? Feminization was to become fabulous, to be feminine was to be ‘fantastical’. To be fantastical was to be whimsical, fanciful, sublime and above all, magnificent in a freshly metamorphosed body.

It was difficult to fathom Sheldon. He did come across as a hard line Leftist or Marxist. This was confusing for me and for the others. Was he phony or was he genuine. I could honestly not tell at the time. Anyway, whatever misgiving we may have had regarding his Leftist credentials, we were awe struck...

Waterlandsridge is the story of an African farm in the early 1960s told by two teenagers, a brother and a sister. Through what they see, experience and think we acquire an intimate insight into their rural universe with all its characteristic rhythms of life and death, hope and grief.

Basking in the Mediterranean sun, visiting art museums in Italy, and walking the streets of Paris a young student from Africa embarks on a journey of love and erotic adventure.

In this novella Joab Badenhorst as a white South African male finds himself literally thrown into the cauldron of war, fighting on the wrong side of history, first in the counter-insurgency bush war on the Namibian-Angolan border and then in the Angolan civil war. Unable to extricate himself he experiences...