A Spy in Time

Paperback | 14 August 2018

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Longlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Ilube Nommo Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the 2019 Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science-Fiction Novel

Enver Eleven is twenty-five years old and ready for adventure.

He's the Agency's newest recruit, eager to leap through his first gate into an unfamiliar time. In Enver's home city of Johannesburg, fair-skinned people are a rarity and have been for centuries. The people of Johannesburg were spared the ravages of the apocalypse because of the thousands of miles of mining tunnels running beneath it.

The Agency's thinking machines have set his first mission for Marrakesh, circa 1955. His handler is the tough and taciturn Shanumi Six.

Their mission: prevent the apocalypse from happening again.

But when a cabal of temporal chaos-bringers kidnaps Shanumi, Enver must strike out across the timeline's hotspots--Rio de Janeiro 1967, Johannesburg 2271--on a mission to preserve our very existence. His journeys put him in the middle of a catastrophe which will force him to put his assumptions to the test in an atmosphere of conspiracy and intrigue.

Award-winning novelist Imraan Coovadia (The Wedding, Tales of the Metric System) returns with this crackling Afrofuturistic tale of intrigue in which the course of human history hangs in the balance.

Industry Reviews

Praise for The Wedding "Both hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a story of love and loathing at first sight." --Booklist

"As soon as one reads the first few pages of South African novelist Coovadia's premier novel, the cadences of Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy immediately come to mind." --Library Journal

Praise for Tales of the Metric System

"The collected stories structure recalls David Mitchell's Ghostwritten, or Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad. As a character says early on, 'We get most of our energy from complications.' These complications rapidly pile up, resulting in a layered, multifaceted narrative." --Publishers Weekly

"Using the transition to the metric system as both the catalyst and symbol for radical change, Coovadia places his characters in a historical context that explains their triumphs and shortcomings without offering excuses." --World Literature Today

"Imraan Coovadia is one of the best novelists to come out of South Africa in a long time. His prose is charming, clever and sly. A must read." --Gary Shteyngart, author of The Little Failure and Super Sad True Love Story

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