ABOUT
THE BOOK

A run-down block of flats in central Cape Town becomes a young girl’s gallery of self-discovery in Skyline, a story of the emotional carnage caused by civil wars in Africa. Drug dealers from Nigeria, Zimbabwean wire-workers, immigrants from Rwanda and Sudan, a Mozambican refugee, are all escaping the ruins of war in the peace of the new South Africa. They bear down on her fragile world, then scoop her into theirs.