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Johannesburg

Paperback | English

By (author): Fiona Melrose

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.

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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 358g
  • Dimensions: 235 x 171mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Aug 2017
  • Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781472152831

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.

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