A thousand tales of Johannesburg
By: Harry Kalmer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Century City, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781485903475; 9781485903628
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Duisend stories oor Johannesburg
Description: "This is the story of Sara, who poses stiffly for a photo with her four children at Turffontein concentration camp in 1901, and of Abraham, who paints the street names of Johannesburg's kerbs. It is the tale of their grandson Zweig, a young architect who has to leave Johannesburg when he falls in love with the wrong person, and of Marceline, a Congolese mother who flees to the city only to be caught up in a wave of xenophobic violence. Spanning more than a hundred years, A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg is a novel that documents and probes the lives of the inhabitants of this incomparable African city - the exiled, those returning from exile, and those who never left."--Back cover.
Notes: Translated from the Afrikaans, 'n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg : 'n stadsroman.