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Lost and Found in Johannesburg - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Lost and Found in Johannesburg - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play
'Dispatcher', a game that involved sitting in his father's parked
car (or in the study) and sending imaginary couriers on routes
across the city, mapped out from Holmden's Register of
Johannesburg. As the imaginary fleet made its way across the
troubled city and its tightly bound geographies, so too did the
young dispatcher begin to figure out his own place in the world. At
the centre of Lost and Found in Johannesburg is the account of a
young boy who is obsessed with maps and books, and other boys. Mark
Gevisser's account of growing up as the gay son of Jewish
immigrants, in a society deeply affected - on a daily basis - by
apartheid and its legacy, provides a uniquely layered understanding
of place and history. It explores a young man's maturation into a
fully engaged and self-aware citizen, first of his city, then of
his country and the world beyond. This is a story of memory,
identity and an intensely personal relationship with the City of
Gold. It is also the story of a violent home invasion and its
aftermath, and of a man's determination to reclaim his home town.
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