Short Circuits. Tafelberg, 2005
Dans ce recueil de nouvelles, Marita van der Vyver explore l’urgence d’être ailleurs. Si au bout du compte le voyageur retourne toujours a son port d’attache, il y revient raffraîchi et enrichi de perspectives plus profondes. Les nouvelles recueillies, aussi variées que les destinations proposées (Londres, Paris, Washington, New York, les Seychelles, l’Egypte), nous font passer par différentes émotions, du pathos à la comédie jusqu’à la tragédie.
Short Circuits. Tafelberg, 2005
Marita van der Vyver is perhaps best known to her may admirers for her sharp, humorous observations of home ground. But here she explores, in a series of interrelated stories, the urge to be elsewhere. If ultimately, elsewhere leads back home, the traveller at least returns with refreshed insight and deeper perspective. In a collection as varied as the destinations it describes - London, Paris, Washington, New York, the Seychelles, Egypt - the mood varies from pathos to comedy; and in the final story, the tragedy of a child’s illness and death is unforgettably recreated..