The boundaries of Johannesburg are drifting away, sliding over
pristine ridges and valleys, lodging in tenuous places, slipping
again. At its edges, where the city fades momentarily into the
veld, unimaginable new atmospheres evolve
This half-made world
beside the freeways, where Tuscan townhouses are jostled together
with township matchboxes and shanties, is the setting for Ivan
Vladislavic's book. In a quartet of interlinked fictions, he
unfolds the stories of four men a statistician employed on the
national census, an engineer out on the town with his council
connections, an artist with an interest in genocide and curios, and
a contractor who puts up billboards on building sites. As they try
to make sense of a changed world, themes seldom explored in South
African fiction come vividly to life. Ranging effortlessly across
distance and time, Vladislavic deftly explodes our comfortable
views and shows us what lies behind the seductive surfaces.
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