We have sold 25 copies of Aiyo! by Pravasan Pillay in the first week of publication! That's a quarter of this limited numbered print run of 100 copies!
In Aiyo!, a man orders a bunny chow from a deserted takeaway in Chatsworth late one night, and is told a morbid tale by the seductive owner. A woman wants to cut her long hair and encounters strange opposition. A Durban man travels to India to meet his beautiful bride-to-be, but soon discovers that her parents have other things in mind.
48 pages. This edition is limited to 100 numbered copies.
ISBN: 978-0-6397-6267-8
Pravasan Pillay has published two poetry chapbooks, Glumlazi (2009) and 30 Poems (2015), as well as a collection of co-written comedic short stories, Shaggy (2013). His acclaimed short story collection Chatsworth was published in 2018, and was translated into Swedish in 2020.
Price: R90 a copy. Cost of courier to your door is R100, so R190 altogether.
As most South Africans will know, the South African Post Office is now in provisional liquidation, so that makes getting copies by post out of the question.
