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IVAN VLADISLAVIC
A boxing bildungsroman-a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammad Ali in Apartheid South Africa.
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Ivan Vladislavic
An insider capable of revealing his city’s spirit and its reality, Ivan Vladisavic combines the eloquence of Jan Morris on Trieste with the precision of Henri Cartier-Bresson on Paris.
Gerald Gaylard
This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavic. Bringing a flaneur's sensitivity and deep word hoard to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavic developed an "internal GPS" and…
Mr and Mrs Malgas are going about their lives when a mysterious squatter appears and convinces Mr Malgas to help him build an imaginary home next door. With its story…
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This novel takes the zero tolerance approach to punctuation of Eats, Shoots and Leaves to a hilarious yet poignant conclusion.
Ivan Vladislavic invites readers to do some detective work of their own. Each story can be read as a story or you can try to tease out the clues and…
Race, politics, identity, photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavic reminds us nothing is black and white.
Ivan Vladislavic’s latest collection of short stories exemplifies the sly wit and formal innovation that have gained him international acclaim.
A gorgeously-wrought, ingeniously structured novel tracing the interwoven lives of four characters in Johannesburg.
Surely one of the most ingenious love letters-full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning-ever addressed to a city. -Geoff Dyer
A boxing bildungsroman–a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammad Ali in Apartheid South Africa. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with…
Explores the problems and potentials of the fictions the author could not bring himself to write. Drawing from his notebooks, this title records here a range of ideas for stories…
Mikhael Subotzky,Patrick Waterhouse
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse worked at Ponte City, the iconic Johannesburg apartment building and Africa’s tallest residential skyscraper, for more than six years. There they photographed its residents and…
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The weapon that would change the World
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