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Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
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ISBN: 0393335402
Author: Vladislavic, Ivan
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Surely one of the most ingenious love letters-full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning-ever addressed to a city. -Geoff Dyer This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehtas 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).
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Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked