The Distance (Paperback)

In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers, an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their shared past. But can a story ever belong equally to two people? Is this a brotherly collaboration or a battle for supremacy?

This is an intricate puzzle of a book by a writer of lyrical power and formal inventiveness. Against a spectacular backdrop, the heyday of the greatest showman of them all, Vladislavić unfolds a small, fragmentary story of family life and the limits of language. Meaning comes into view in the spaces between then and now, growing up and growing old, speaking out and keeping silent.

General

Imprint:	Umuzi
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	February 2019
Authors:	Ivan Vladislavic
Dimensions:	210 x 134 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4152-1026-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Local Author Showcase > Fiction - adults > Drama
LSN:	1-4152-1026-8
Barcode:	9781415210260

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