Portrait with Keys (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2009-05-12
Utmärkelser
Winner of Alan Paton Award 2007.
Förlag
WW Norton & Co
Dimensioner
203 x 137 x 15 mm
Vikt
159 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780393335408

Portrait with Keys

The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

av Ivan Vladislavic
Häftad,  Engelska, 2009-05-12
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This 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 Africa (Christopher Hope)."
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Like the city it studies, Portrait with Keys is complex, with vast rewards for the patient reader. --Tracey D. Samuelson"

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