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伦敦:老街出版社,2010年。432页。7.99英镑。ISBN:1-906964-16-0。在开普敦国际书展侦探小说作家座谈会上,一位作家谈到她曾跟编辑玩过的一个小把戏。谈起她的下一部小说,她说她曾把最近报纸上报道的一起谋杀案照葫芦画瓢地写成了一个短篇小说。编辑拒绝了这个故事,认为这故事太难以置信了。读者怎么会相信故事中有那么多不可思议的巧合。它会让人感觉是人为编造的。这就是今天在南非写作的众多挑战之一:在这个世界上谋杀率最高
London: Street Publishing, 2010. 432 pages. £ 7.99. ISBN: 1-906964-16-0. At the Cape Town International Book Fair detective fiction writers forum, a writer talked about a small game she had played with editors. Talking about her next novel, she said she has written a short story on a murder case reported in a recent newspaper. The editor rejected the story and saw the story as incredible. Readers how to believe there are so many incredible coincidence in the story. It makes people feel artificial. This is one of the many challenges in writing in South Africa today: the highest murder rate in this world