I definitely should have written my review for Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga more swiftly after finishing it, because I don’t know what to say about this book anymore, if I ever did. It’s a difficult book to describe even, so maybe this review is for those of you who see that cover, hear ‘science fiction that bends towards mystery, set in South Africa’s recent past and near future’, and, like me, are sold on no further information. Triangulum is structured like a collection of first-person primary documents, journal entries and transcribed recordings, which are under review by the South African National Space Agency because their relevance to a recent terrorist attack lend credence to their claim of the impending end of the world. At the heart of this novel is a young woman grappling with the disappearance of her mother and, in the background, the rippling social impact of the end of apartheid. A convoluted but ultimately, for me, deeply satisfying read.⁣
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