β Alexa Land
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β¦ LIBER β¦
The Distance
β Scribed by Ivan Vladislavic
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press; Archipelago Books
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- South Africa
- ISBN
- 1939810779
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"In his youth in 1970s suburban Pretoria, Joe falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He diligently scrapbooks newspaper clippings of his his hero, recording the showman's words and taking in his inimitable brand of resistance. Forty years later, digging out his yellowed archive of Ali clippings and comic books, Joe sets out to write a memoir of his childhood. Calling upon his brother Branko for help, their two voices interweave to unearth a shared past. Reconstructing a world of bioscopes, Formica tabletops, Ovaltine, and drop-offs in their father's Ford Zephyr, conjuring the textures of childhood, what emerges is a collision of memories, patching the gulf between past and present. Meaning arises in the gaps between fact and imagination, and words themselves become markers of the past and the turbulent present. In this formally inventive, fragmented novel, VladislaviΔ evokes the beauty, and the strangeness, of remembering and forgetting, and explores what it means to be at odds with one's surroundings"--
β¦ Subjects
South Africa
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