Miriam Tlali was the first Black South African woman to publish a novel in English in South Africa. Muriel at the Metropolitan is a devastating portrayal of life of a Black woman working a clerical job at a white business called ‘Metropolitan’ in Johannesburg under Apartheid. According to Dr. Barbara Boswell, 45 different editions of the novel were published and translated into several languages between 1975 and 2005, including this Polish edition.

Muriel w Metropolitan [Muriel at the Metropolitan] Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1989. 20.5 x 14.5 x 1.5. 183 pages. First Polish Edition. Translated by Maryla Topczewska-Metelska.