Portrait with Keys : The City of Johannesburg Unlocked EPUB
by Ivan Vladislavic
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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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- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:01/06/2009
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- ISBN:9780393071511
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:01/06/2009
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- ISBN:9780393071511