Room 207

Kgebetli Moele's raw, beautiful prose exposes a world in which humor and despair exist in equal measures, a world where the need to succeed, to strike it rich, brings out the best and the worst of human nature. Room 207 takes the reader to a Jo'burg that is the very heart of South Africa, to a room in which six young men struggle to make their dreams come true in the 'dream city'. Set in a block of dilapidated apartments in Hillbrow, an inner-city neighborhood in Johannesburg, this novel tells the story of six young men who will do anything - including hustling and conning anyone they can - to survive. Painting an engrossing portrait of the friends, it shows the hopelessness and despair of a group stuck in their position in life, having to compromise themselves to make a living and reach for their dreams.