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Messenger, Shannon
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Fiction
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2020
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Simon & Schuster UK
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English
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Portrait with keys: the city of Johannesburg unlocked
โ Scribed by Vladislavic, Ivan
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, Johannesburg, Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa--Johannesburg.
- ISBN
- 0393071510
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"Surely one of the most ingenious love letters--full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning--ever addressed to a city." --Geoff DyerThis dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta's Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security--insecurity?--is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as "one of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today" (Andre Brink), delivers "one of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South...
โฆ Subjects
Johannesburg
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