Hear Me Alone displays tremendous growth in Mgqolozana's prose from his first book, A Man who is Not a Man, which was story driven.

Not that Hear Me Alone doesn't have a story, but it is one you've heard before - sort of. A re-telling of of a familiar Bible tale. Writers do like to play with The Book - the variations of Ruth, The Life of Brain, The Last Temptation of Christ (both book and film), The Red Tent and so on - and I like to read them.