The Institute of Taxi Poetry
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 SUNDAY TIMES FICTION PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG PRIZE FOR BEST CREATIVE WORK
Solly Greenfields, the first of the taxi poets, has been shot dead. At the Institute for Taxi Poetry, where they train young people to write poetry on the bodywork of Cape Town's taxis, Solly's protégé Adam Ravens tries to make sense of his death. Who killed Solly, and why is Adam's son acting so odd?
In the world of Imraan Coovadia's new tragicomic novel taxi companies thrive in a single-party state. Taxi poets are admired, sliding-door men rule, professors and politicians strut and fret and connive in a society shaped by violence and ambition, love, and the unsettling power of the imagination.