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A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg by Harry Kalmer
A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg by Harry Kalmer
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288 pages, Paperback
23cm x 15cm (C-Format)
Condition: LIKE NEW: This book is almost as new, with no damage nor defects
Goodreads Rating: 4.02 * 92 ratings * 11 reviews
Genres: Historical Fiction/South Africa
A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg is Harry Kalmer’s spellbinding ode to Johannesburg and its people.
This is the story of Sara, who poses stiffly for a photo with her four children at Turffontein concentration camp in 1901, and of Abraham, who paints the street names on Johannesburg’s kerbs. It is the tale of their grandson Zweig, a young architect who has to leave Johannesburg when he falls in love with the wrong person, and of Marceline, a Congolese mother who flees to the city only to be caught up in a wave of xenophobic violence.
Spanning more than a hundred years, A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg is a novel that documents and probes the lives of the inhabitants of this incomparable African city – the exiled, those returning from exile, and those who never left.
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