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Johannesburg

Johannesburg

by Fiona Melrose
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/08/2017

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6 December 2013. Johannesburg.



Gin has returned home from New York to throw a party for her mother's eightieth birthday; a few blocks away, at the Residence, Nelson Mandela's family prepares to announce Tata's death...



So begins JOHANNESBURG, Fiona Melrose's searing second novel.



An irascible mother, an anxious daughter trying to negotiate her birthplace and her past, her former lover, their domestic workers, a homeless hunchback fighting for justice, a mining magnate, a troubled novelist called Virginia - these are the characters who give voice to the city on a day hot with nerves and tension and history.



Set across the course of a single day, responsive to Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY, JOHANNESBURG is a profound hymn to an extraordinary city, and a devastating personal and political manifesto on love.
ISBN:
9781472152831
9781472152831
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-08-2017
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
171x235x21mm
Weight:
0.36kg

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