Johannesburg
By: Fiona Melrose
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781472152848; 9781472152831; 9781472152855
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fiction
Description: 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 prepare 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.
Notes: Also available in electronic format.