Roots and Wings: turning out to be Up in South African Apartheid by means of Shoshana Kobrin captures the essence of apartheid South Africa – and racial injustice anyplace – in a set of brief tales. they're infused with the flavour of the South African panorama; its majestic mountains, the dry, airborne dirt and dust Highveld, the untamed great thing about the bush with its animal, fowl, and reptile population. this is often set opposed to the backdrop of Johannesburg with its gold mine tailings, impoverished black ghettos, and the luxury residing form of the white citizens. The tales mirror a coming of age of the characters in addition to their skill to connect to others of a unique race and tradition. the subjects differ largely; encounters with wild monkeys and elephants, the attachment of a mom to her small daughter on safari, a tender boy stranded within the Karroo semi-desert, a woman’s poignant go back to the home the place she grew up, a puppy assault on a distant Transvaal farm, and a white university student’s epiphany whilst faced along with her black maid’s discomfort. The resource of every tale is an incident from Kobrin’s earlier. this is often fleshed out by means of huge learn, in addition to her mental perception into her characters from her adventure as a psychotherapist. Kobrin used to be born, grew up, and taught multi-cultural conversation classes in apartheid South Africa. She tells those tales with an insider’s view of that conflicted and oppressive interval of South African history.