Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked by Vladislavic, Ivan

Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a...
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Author: Ivan Vladislavic
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Language: English
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Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked by Vladislavic, Ivan

Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

$39.50

Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

$39.50
Author: Ivan Vladislavic
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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" (André 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).

Author: Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780393335408


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2009 pg. 58
New York Times Book Review 12/06/2009 pg. 26
Publisher's Weekly Annex 07/13/2009

About the Author
Vladislavic, Ivan: - 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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