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Johannesburg (häftad, eng)
6 December 2013.
It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for h...
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6 December 2013.
It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for her mother''s eightieth birthday. She is determined, with lists and meals and flower arrangements, to show that she has become a fully capable womanShe knows, deep down, her mother will only ever see a lost cause.
Meanwhile outside, crowds of citizens and the world''s media have gathered to hear the expected announcement: Nelson Mandela has died.
Set across the course of a single momentous day and narrated by a chorus of voices, Fiona Melrose''s second novel is a hymn to an extraordinary city and its people, an ambitious homage to Virginia Woolf''s Mrs Dalloway, and a devastating personal and political manifesto on mothers and daughters, justice and love.
''Beautifully observed'' Mail on Sunday
''Woolf produced blooms that are impossible to emulateJohannesburg provides evidence of a novelist who can grow inimitable flowers herself'' Spectator
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 272 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Little, Brown Book Group |
Utgivningsdatum | 2018-08-02 |
ISBN | 9781472152862 |
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Böcker
- Häftad, 272, Engelska, Little, Brown Book Group, 2018-08-02, 9781472152862
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 272
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Little, Brown Book Group
- Utgivningsdatum 2018-08-02
- ISBN 9781472152862