Room 207 is a startling novel – it paints a vivid, engrossing picture of six friends in Hillbrow, and their sense of hopelessness and dispair of having to compromise their lives. They are artists, these men, but they have to make a living. Otherwise, fate would call them back home – not driving their own BMW, but leaving the way they arrived in the ‘dream city’: in a taxi, with empty pockets, and nothing to show for their years in Joburg.
