Kayang Gagiano
Kayang Gagiano is a freelance lifestyle writer based in Stellenbosch. Her focus area includes book reviews and travel and food writing.
She is a monthly contributor to Sawubona (the South African Airways in-flight magazine).
Opgedateer/Updated: 2011-08-03
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The Shining Girls – an adeptly crafted spine-tingler
2013-05-15 "Beukes’s painstaking historical research delivers up authentic, yet slightly clichéd renderings of the eras she chooses to highlight – from the grunge-era 1990s, to the paranoid spectre of McCarthyism in the mid-1950s, to the politically disenchanted Nixon-era ‘70s, and so on."
Kayang Gagiano reviews Shaida Kazie Ali's Lessons in Husbandry
2013-04-09 The novel is an enticing synthesis of mystery, eulogy, playful feminist tract and romance - and it is the central love story and sense of promise and liberation it offers which provide succour from grief for both protagonist and reader.
Dangerous Love by Ben Okri: Seeking Solace in a Brutalised Society
2013-03-13 "The novel is ambitious in its scope and complex in its rendering."