Featured Author: Maruwan Gasant

Maruwan Gasant is a South African author and actor. His first novel, Night of the Dogs, faces some stark truths that we as South Africans often try to keep buried, whether for the sake of relations, or out of shame.

With this tale of truth and consequence, Maruwan poses the question, "Can there be healing if the scabs remain?" and rips those scabs off to reveal the wounds that lie beneath. The author believes that all history is important, but "emotional history should be left in the 'unclaimed' sections of the lost and found departments of airports in the journey of life".

Available on eReads and Amazon, Night of the Dogs is exactly the type of book that we at eReads love to include on our list. It's an offering from an unknown author (at least, for now) that really makes the reader sit up and think, as you can see from these excerpts: