A thousand tales of Johannesburg
Kalmer, Harry2017
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"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 of 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."--Back cover.
Main title:
A thousand tales of Johannesburg / Harry Kalmer.
Author:
Kalmer, Harry, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Century City, South Africa : Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd, 2017.
Collation:
283 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Afrikaans, 'n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg : 'n stadsroman.
ISBN:
1485903629 ((ePub))9781485903475 ((paperback))1485903475 ((paperback))9781485903628 ((ePub))
Dewey class:
839.3636
LC class:
MLCM 2017/42221 (P)
Language:
EnglishAfrikaans
Added title:
BRN:
3364990