Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Margaret for getting a free copy of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia.

This week, we are giving away a copy of The Children’s Day by Michiel Heyns. This unforgettable first novel evokes a young South African boy’s rite of passage in the 1960s. In a deceptively simple narrative, Simon observes a series of newcomers to his small home town and gradually pieces together truths about love, life, politics and sex: realizations which crystallize as a result of a disturbing encounter at the novel’s climax. The confusions of adolescence and the absurdities of South African politics are keenly observed, as Simon struggles to define the world and understand adult certainties – only to discover the dark ambiguities at the center of so much in life.

This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Tin House Books. Read more »