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WE INHERIT THE FIRE
A Novel
A vivid, atmospheric novel set against the end of apartheid in South Africa, centred on a family of Black women who fracture and fall back together again amidst a nation-wide reckoning.
Kewame "Dolly" Malaka is unravelling. A former political prisoner, now a mother and mistress of a beautiful home, she struggles to maintain a fragile image of domestic perfection, finding herself lost somewhere between childhood, prison, and the present.
Kelelo, Kewame's teenage daughter, is growing up in a time when the things her mother fought for are being realized. At school, Kelelo enjoys a certain level of fame as the child of a former political prisoner. At home, she wrestles with the painful reality of an emotionally distant mother, who shrouds her past in silence and secrecy.
In gorgeously rendered, unflinching prose, We Inherit the Fire entwines the intimate with the historical, injustice with resilience, and tenderness with pain in its excavation of the fractured bonds between generations. With the startling specificity and boundary-breaking potential of Francesca Ekwuyasi'sButter Honey Pig Bread, this novel sears its mark onto the reader's memory long after the final page.
Kagiso Lesego Molope is an award-winning Indigenous South African storyteller and playwright. She is the author of four novels for young adults, including Such a Lonely, Lovely Road and This Book Betrays My Brother . She has been three times nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She is the winner of the 2014 Percy FitzPatrick Award, the 2019 Ottawa Book Award, and the 2019 Inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award. In 2016, Molope was the second writer-in-residence for the British Council's Small Wonder International Festival. Her works are read in schools in parts of Europe. She lives in Canada.
Kelelo, Kewame's teenage daughter, is growing up in a time when the things her mother fought for are being realized. At school, Kelelo enjoys a certain level of fame as the child of a former political prisoner. At home, she wrestles with the painful reality of an emotionally distant mother, who shrouds her past in silence and secrecy.
In gorgeously rendered, unflinching prose, We Inherit the Fire entwines the intimate with the historical, injustice with resilience, and tenderness with pain in its excavation of the fractured bonds between generations. With the startling specificity and boundary-breaking potential of Francesca Ekwuyasi'sButter Honey Pig Bread, this novel sears its mark onto the reader's memory long after the final page.
Kagiso Lesego Molope is an award-winning Indigenous South African storyteller and playwright. She is the author of four novels for young adults, including Such a Lonely, Lovely Road and This Book Betrays My Brother . She has been three times nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She is the winner of the 2014 Percy FitzPatrick Award, the 2019 Ottawa Book Award, and the 2019 Inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award. In 2016, Molope was the second writer-in-residence for the British Council's Small Wonder International Festival. Her works are read in schools in parts of Europe. She lives in Canada.
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Book Published 2026-01-13 by McCkekkand & Stewart |