Banquet at Brabazan

In Banquet at Brabazan, Patricia Schonstein Takes Us to the Heart of Cape Town's Violent Inner City. She Weaves Together a Rich and Consuming Story of a Secret Love Affair Between a Boss and His Secretary Who Create a Fantastical, Theatrical Life for Themselves Within the Confines of Her Apartment. Their Theatrical Existence is Intricately Entangled With Superb Food, Romance, a Cappella, an Angel, Shakespearean Drama, Reflections on South Africa's War in Angola, Drug-Money, a Muti Murder, Visions of the Afterlife and Various Works of Fine Art With Flashbacks to the Wondrous a Time of Angels. in Contrast to Their Contrived Space, Outside the Apartment Exists the Real World of Loneliness, Xenophobia and Crime That Have Come to Mark Post-Apartheid South Africa. Patricia Schonstein Deftly Leads Us Through Both Worlds, Allowing the Lives of a Small Group of People, Who Have Not Met Before, to Intersect Over a Period of Ten Days at Brabazan Bar & Lodge, in Long Street, Cape Town. Here She Re