Transformations: Essays Kathryn Purdie He and his life were

He and his life were simply astonishing

Created with simple lines and shapes

the freebooters and the slaves are in open revolt

drowned his sister and shattered his family

and pretty much everyone out to kill Valkyrie

Transformations: Essays Kathryn Purdie He and his life wereWhat does Playboy have to do with Nabokovs infamous novel Lolita and his obsession with a butterfly? Why is Shrien Dewani looking so cheap? And what can Ovids Metamorphosis show us about contemporary South African society? Imraan Coovadias Transformations is a collection of short pieces in the tradition of the essayist: exciting, probing, intelligent and readable. The essays are on writing, politics and culture from a South African perspective.