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Portrait with keys : the city of Johannesburg unlocked

A lyrical series of portrait-style observations considers the city's dynamic, day-to-day transformations through descriptions of such subjects as the use of manholes as cupboards by the homeless, a public statue that is slowly dismantled for scrap, and the ways in which the post-apartheid period has prompted a growth in local security efforts.

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  • "This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta's Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security -- insecurity? -- is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as 'one of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today' (André Brink), delivers 'one of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South Africa.' (Christopher Hope)."
  • "Après l'apartheid, la ville de Johannesbourg est autant divisée par la pauvreté, la violence que par la race. L'auteur observe des scènes aussi cocasses que tragiques où les uns s'enferment sur eux-mêmes, obnubilés par leur sécurité, et les autres, restés à l'extérieur, inquiétant les premiers. Une histoire de frontières que l'abolition de l'apartheid rend encore plus saillantes.--[Memento]."
  • "A lyrical series of portrait-style observations considers the city's dynamic, day-to-day transformations through descriptions of such subjects as the use of manholes as cupboards by the homeless, a public statue that is slowly dismantled for scrap, and the ways in which the post-apartheid period has prompted a growth in local security efforts."@en
  • "In the wake of apartheid, the flotsam and jetsam of the divided past flow over Johannesburg and settle, once the tides recede, all around the author, who, patrolling his patch, surveys the changed cityscape and tries to convey for us the nature and significance of those changes."@en

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  • "Clés pour Johannesbourg portrait de ma ville"
  • "Portrait with keys : the city of Johannesburg unlocked"@en
  • "Portrait with keys : the city of Johannesburg unlocked"
  • "Portrait with keys the city of Johannesburg unlocked"@en
  • "Portrait with keys the city of Johannesburg unlocked"

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