Johannesburg
Melrose, Fiona2017
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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. 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.
Main title:
Johannesburg / Fiona Melrose.
Author:
Melrose, Fiona, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2017.©2017
Collation:
261 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781472152848 (hardback)9781472152831 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
343603
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | MELR | Available |