Books by Reza de Wet

The brothers of the title are Anton and Aleksander Chekhov. During a night-long vigil preceding the funeral of their brother Kostia, Anton and Aleksander are drawn into an agonising and explosive confrontation with each other and with deeply hidden aspects of themselves.

Features two plays by a leading South African playwright. In "A Worm in the Bud", Katy stays in England while her sister travels to South Africa, leading to obsession and madness for both of them. "Concealment" concerns a doctor and his two daughters: one a spinster, the other a widow with secrets about the events surrounding her husband's death.

With mother and father gone, a brother and sister face eviction by a lawyer. The "African Gothic" tells the story of their final danse macabre. "Good Heavens" is a comedy thriller with the poetic heart of a folk-tale. In "Breathing In", in the last months of the Second Anglo-Boer War, a General and his Adjutant encounter a mysterious woman.

Three plays in the first of the collections from one of South Africa's finest playwrights. Translated by Steven Stead.