Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

â€œSurely one of the most ingenious love lettersâ€•full of violence, fear, humour, and cunningâ€•ever addressed to a city.â€ â€•Geoff Dyer
This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehtaâ€™s 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. Securityâ€•insecurity?â€•is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as â€œone of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature todayâ€ (AndrÃ© Brink), delivers â€œone of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South Africaâ€ (Christopher Hope).
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393335408
ReleaseDate 2009-06-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393335408

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