Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
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 multipl…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-07151-1
- EAN: 9780393071511
- Produktnummer: 34246102
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 282 KB
Über den Autor
Born in Pretoria in 1957, Ivan Vladislavic has published five works of fiction. Portrait with Keys was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and won the Alan Paton, South Africa's major nonfiction award. He lives in Johannesburg.
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