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ABOUT THE BOOK

A run-down block of flats in central Cape Town becomes a young girl's gallery of self-discovery in Skyline, a story of the emotional carnage caused by civil wars in Africa. Drug dealers from Nigeria, Zimbabwean wire-workers, immigrants from Rwanda and Sudan, a Mozambican refugee, are all escaping the ruins of war in the peace of the new South Africa. They bear down on her fragile world, then scoop her into theirs. Skyline is an unflinching look at one girl's coming of age in the colourful and violent streets of a city waking up to the rest of Africa.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Patricia Schonstein Pinnock was born in Zimbabwe in 1952. She is the author of many works for children and teenagers. Love at His Majesty's (short story) won the Young Africa Award in 1997. She is also the author of Xhosa, a Cultural Grammar for Beginners and A Gathering of Madonnas. Skyline was a runner up in the Sunday Times Literary Award 2001. She is a resident of South Africa where she is currently doing a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at the University of Capetown and co-authoring with her husband, In the Footsteps of David Livingstone, a book about a two month overland journey through Central Africa.

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