"I left my soul at the foot of Table Mountain. I want it back." In this powerful, poignant and distinctively South African collection of short stories, Rayda Jacobs - leaving suddenly for Canada at the age of 21, to return for good only 27 years later - seeks to understand the deep marks that South Africa has left upon her. The character of Sabah runs like a rich thread through the collection, as Jacobs takes the reader on an intense, semi-autobiographical journey which explores childhood, exile after being found in possession of a white card, and return to an altered South Africa in 1995. Other stories reveal South Africans tellingly to each other - the elderly woman frightened by the young man at the garden gate, the shack-dwelling family ruthlessly compromised by the housing "agent", the muslim daughter who must help with the ritual washing of her mother's body for burial. Frequently funny, often serious, always deceptively simple - these "postcards" are the compassionate yet challenging creation of a gifted storyteller.