Sketches, by Kharys Ateh Laue

"An ingenious publishing experiment...moving, surprising and revelatory."--Imraan Coovadia, author of Tales of the Metric System and The Poisoners

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MODEL SEE MEDIA announces the publication of Sketches (2023), the debut prose work from short-story writer, essayist and poet, Kharys Ateh Laue. In Sketches, a South African writer embarks on a journey across three countries with a close friend. As they navigate different natural landscapes and social realities, they grapple with their friendship, gendered existence, race, and how even beauty can bear in it a sense of alienation. Rendered in lean, poetic language and accompanied by evocative ink illustrations, Kharys Ateh Laue’s debut is a moving and daring experiment in autobiographical fiction, marking the arrival of a distinct and assured prose stylist in contemporary South African letters.