The distance
By: Ivan Vladislavić
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Century City, Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781415210260; 9781415210383
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: South African fiction (English)
Description: "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?     Against a spectacular backdrop, the heyday of the greatest showman of them all, Vladislavi♯⁷ unfolds a small, fragmentary story of family life and boyish ambition, illuminating the origins of a writing life and the limits of language"--by publisher.