Desperate for an income, he finds work at a male massage parlour, using the pseudonym Angelo. The relationship with his flatmate deteriorates and Tshepo loses his job at the Waterfront. He now works as a waiter and shares an apartment with a newly released prisoner. He escapes but is returned to the hospital and completes his rehabilitation, earns his release - and promptly terminates his studies.
The plot revolves around Tshepo, a student at Rhodes, who gets confined to a Cape Town mental institution after an episode of 'cannabis-induced psychosis'. The Quiet Violence of Dreams is set in Cape Town's cosmopolitan neighbourhoods - Observatory, Mowbray and Sea Point - where subcultures thrive and alternative lifestyles are tolerated. In doing so, he ventures into unexplored areas and takes local writing in English to places it hasn't been before. In this daring novel, the author gives a startling account of the inner workings of contemporary South African urban culture.
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