A thousand tales of Johannesburg
by Harry Kalmer
"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.
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A thousand tales of Johannesburg
2017, Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd
in English
- First edition.
1485903475 9781485903475
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Translated from the Afrikaans, 'n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg : 'n stadsroman.
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