C.A. Davids's debut novel, The Blacks of Cape Town, was published in South Africa and shortlisted for the Edinburgh Book Fest's First Book Award, the University of Johannesburg Debut Writing Prize, and the SALA First-time Published Author Award, among others.
Her new novel is How to Be a Revolutionary.
At the Guardian Davids tagged ten novels "that seek out interconnectedness, testing and pulling at the idea of nationhood," including:
Cloud Atlas by David MitchellRead about the other entries on the list.
Few can cross the centuries, bending genres and language, so that it works effortlessly on the page. From the South Pacificin the mid-19th century to a dystopian, ultimately consumerist future Korea, Cloud Atlas presents a case for the universality of human nature. It’s a joyful, poignant re-read, 18 years after the novel was first published and especially when this notion of what binds us appears to be in question again.
Cloud Atlas is among Sjón's ten top artificial humans in fiction, Naomi Klein's six favorite books, Jeff Somers's seven novels with chronologies that will break you, Christopher Priest’s top five science-fiction books that make use of music, Patrick Hemstreet's five top books for the psychonaut and the six books that changed Maile Meloy's idea of what’s possible in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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