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Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir
Mark Gevisser
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Description for Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir
Paperback. This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BM; HBJH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a game that involved sitting in his father's parked car (or in the study) and sending imaginary couriers on routes across the city, mapped out from Holmden's Register of Johannesburg. As the imaginary fleet made its way across the troubled city and its tightly bound geographies, so too did the young dispatcher begin to figure out his own place in the world. At the centre of Lost and Found in Johannesburg is the account of a young boy who is obsessed with maps and books, and ... Read more
As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a game that involved sitting in his father's parked car (or in the study) and sending imaginary couriers on routes across the city, mapped out from Holmden's Register of Johannesburg. As the imaginary fleet made its way across the troubled city and its tightly bound geographies, so too did the young dispatcher begin to figure out his own place in the world. At the centre of Lost and Found in Johannesburg is the account of a young boy who is obsessed with maps and books, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783780990
SKU
V9781783780990
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Mark Gevisser
MARK GEVISSER is one of South Africa's pre-eminent authors and journalists. His last book, A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream, won the Sunday Times 2008 Alan Paton Prize. His journalism has appeared in publications and journals including Granta, the New York Times, the Guardian, Newsweek, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal and the ... Read more
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