A collection of hopeful stories about living, dying and falling in love, with photographs by Guy Neveling.
An evil man is reincarnated as a terrible smell and over time falls in love with a woman. A stranger arrives at the door of a heavenly house, but unlike everyone else there, she will only live once. A person dies and goes to a place where all living things go – a menagerie of animals roaming an endless meadow – and he finds love in familiar faces. A mother and a son reunite in a heaven that is also a hell – depending on how you see it. Two people die on the moon and live undead through eons, moving through the phases of love while watching the lights on Earth flicker out.
Publication date: 8 March 2024
ISBN: 978-1-7764581-9-6
“Excitingly inventive writing that will touch you long after reading – sometimes with a cold and bony finger, and sometimes with the gentle breath of a lovesick ghost.”
– Henrietta Rose-Innes
“Unusually humorous and without sentimentality, these stories illuminate the extraordinarily strange places – in this world as well as others – that life and death will take us.”
– Nick Mulgrew
ALEX LATIMER is an award-winning picture book author based in Cape Town. He has also written three novels. Extinction, published here for the first time, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Love Stories for Ghosts is his debut collection.
GUY NEVELING has picked up numerous photography awards at international advertising festivals, but now dedicates his time primarily to personal work, continually nurturing his love for imagery. He lives in Simon’s Town.
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Shew! Original on every level!
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Indeed. These stories are a delight.
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