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Adriaan Van Dis is a Dutch writer and TV presenter who uses one of the more difficult written genres with which to communicate: the novella. Difficult because a world of meaning has to be conveyed in a limited length. Although it's not as condensed as a short story, each sentence must still serve a purpose and here Adriaan shows he's more than a match for the art.

As Mulder travels back to a country for which he felt so passionately as a youngster he realises that different isn't necessarily better. The black townships still suffer and squalid conditions still prevail for those not ''black enough''. Women selling their bodies may not be deemed respectable but for some it's necessary, even if the guarantee of more food doesn't include a guarantee of survival.