In 2005 at the Guardian, he named a top 10 list of books that teach us something about southern Africa.
One title on the list:
Disgrace by JM CoetzeeRead about the other books on Holding's list.
No other novelist renders the inner truths of man more palpably than Coetzee, and here the story of a fallen university professor turns into deft allegory, the everyman for an entire nation struggling to comprehend changes to its national identity.
--Marshal Zeringue