mlytylr 's review for:

Dog Eat Dog by Niq Mhlongo

3.0

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For those willing to look past stylistic and grammatical errors, this is a startlingly honest and vivid look at post-apartheid South Africa. The narrator, Dingz, is witty but ultimately unlikable. He is completely a product of his environment; of both the historical South Africa and the contemporary one. The strength of this novel is not in its story, or even in its characters, but in its setting and descriptions of place.