Up the Down Escalator

The third and final book in Kwela's Young African Writing seriers. It offers an open-eyed view of reality as currently experienced by young people. Without sparing the reader, they raise their views on the rapidly changing social, moral and political fabric of this country.

It is an 'open book' for every young person and interested adult; a journey through the fantasies and perspectives of young South Africans at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

LINDA RODE was born in Ladismith, Western Cape. She studied at Stellenbosch University, where she obtained an Honours degree in German and a Teacher's Diploma. She taught school in Calvinia, in Hermannsburg, at the Pionierskool in Worcester (school for the blind) and at Herzlia in Cape Town and works as a free-lance translator for publishers. Linda is married to Erwin Rode. They live in Bellville and have two children.