![]() ![]() ![]() The book gets so caught up in painting a finely-detailed scene across each chapter that crucial moments in the plot are lost in a pool of less significant details. However, the strength of this approach carries with it a few pitfalls. Most South African readers who will purchase this book will be exposed to new worlds and new words. The novel criticizes the Blesser/Blessee culture and more importantly the socio-economic circumstances that feed this culture of transactional relationships based on unequal power relations.Īs an experienced author with 3 books to her name Jackie Phamotse’s Bare: the cradle of the hockey club is an exhibition of her descriptive powers. It is the story of Treasure Mohapi and her entanglement with Tim Morgan, a key figure in a human trafficking and organ trafficking organisation based in South Africa’s suburbs which targets vulnerable and ambitious young South African women. ![]() Bare: the cradle of the hockey club is a 407-page work of fiction published in 2019. ![]()
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