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Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

By Ivan Vladislavic
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By Ivan Vladislavic

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Winner, Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize, and the University of Johannesburg Prize, 2007

Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2008; and the Warwick Prize 2009


‘One of the most ingenious love letters – full of violence, fear, humour and cunning – ever addressed to a city. If Italo Calvino had grown up in Joburg and experienced both apartheid and its aftermath this is the kind of book he would have been proud to have written.’ – Geoff Dyer

‘This fascinating work of art lo...

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