Tsotsi Alan Rickman describes Jenny Kilgour's coming of

describes Jenny Kilgour's coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather's life on a remote hill farm

and survival with psychological depth and modern resonance

the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos

an Oxford academic obsessed with her memoirs and possessed by the many parallels with her own complicated past

Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel has themes of religion

Tsotsi Alan Rickman describes Jenny Kilgour's coming ofTsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But when he captures a woman one night in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, she shoves a shoebox into his arms: the box contains a baby and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood and rediscover the self he left behind. Tsotsis raw power and rare humanity show how decency and compassion