Johannesburg

Author: Fiona Melrose
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Category: Fiction, Collections
Book Format: Paperback

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...So begins JOHANNESBURG, Fiona Melrose's searing second novel.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.

About Fiona Melrose
Fiona Melrose was born in Johannesburg but has spent the majority of her adult life in the UK, first in London and then in East Anglia. Previously Fiona has worked in academia, NGO's, public affairs and as an emerging markets analyst. She continues to keep a foot in both continents and is currently spending the majority of her time back in South Africa.

(BK-9781472152831)

SKU BK-9781472152831
Barcode # 9781472152831
Brand Little, Brown Book Group
Artist / Author Fiona Melrose
Shipping Weight 0.4000kg
Shipping Width 0.170m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.240m
Assembled Length 17.100m
Assembled Height 2.100m
Assembled Width 23.500m
Type Paperback

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