Zoë Wicomb grew up in a so-called ‘coloured’ community in Namaqualand in South Africa. She emigrated to Great Britain, and returned to teach at the University of the Western Cape in 1990. Currently she teaches at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Her collection of short stories,

The One That Got Away

(2008), and her novel

Playing in the Light

(2006) have been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. Her novel

David’s Story

was awarded the prestigious M-Net Book Prize in the English category of South African novels in 2001.

Zoë Wicomb’s multifaceted novel creates suspense and appeals to reflection as it straddles the genres of mystery story and historiographic metafiction, the self-reflexive fictionalizing of history in an inter-textual narrative (Driver 2001, 242-50). The

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Citation: Meyer, Michael. "David's Story". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 December 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24867, accessed 29 March 2024.]

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