The dancing and the death on Lemon Street
By: Denis Hirson
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Auckland Park, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781770098763
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction
Description: "On a street in the leafy northern suburbs of Johanesburg, in early 1960, people live their lives, fall in love, suffer from loneliness. Events of the day do not leave everyone indifferent: the great Clydesdale mine disaster, the assassination attempt on Dr Verwoerd, the Sharpeville Massacre, all reveal and alter the way people are. Indirectly pushing one of them to revenge.."--Back cover.