{"product_id":"portrait-with-keys-the-city-of-johannesburg-unlocked-0393335402","title":"Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393335402\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vladislavic, Ivan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurely 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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51539092734240,"sku":"NEW0393335402","price":17.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61YS8hnFogL.jpg?v=1777484995","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/portrait-with-keys-the-city-of-johannesburg-unlocked-0393335402","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}