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Portrait With Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

Portrait With Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

Name: Portrait With Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Ivan Vladislavic
ISBN: 9780393335408

Ivan Vladislavic

01/06/2009
W. W. Norton & Company

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Couverture de Portrait With Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked par Ivan Vladislavic

Résumé

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).