Johannesburg
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1472152867
ISBN-13
9781472152862
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint
Corsair
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 2nd, 2018
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
224 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 13.50 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Set during a single day in Johannesburg - the day of Nelson Mandela's death - Melrose's second novel is a hymn to an extraordinary city and its people, an ambitious homage to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, and a devastating personal and political manifesto on love.
6 December 2013.
It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for her mother''s eightieth birthday. She is determined, with lists and meals and flower arrangements, to show that she has become a fully capable woman. She knows, deep down, her mother will only ever see a lost cause.
Meanwhile outside, crowds of citizens and the world''s media have gathered to hear the expected announcement: Nelson Mandela has died.
Set across the course of a single momentous day and narrated by a chorus of voices, Fiona Melrose''s second novel is a hymn to an extraordinary city and its people, an ambitious homage to Virginia Woolf''s Mrs Dalloway, and a devastating personal and political manifesto on mothers and daughters, justice and love.
''Beautifully observed'' Mail on Sunday
''Woolf produced blooms that are impossible to emulate. Johannesburg provides evidence of a novelist who can grow inimitable flowers herself'' Spectator
It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for her mother''s eightieth birthday. She is determined, with lists and meals and flower arrangements, to show that she has become a fully capable woman. She knows, deep down, her mother will only ever see a lost cause.
Meanwhile outside, crowds of citizens and the world''s media have gathered to hear the expected announcement: Nelson Mandela has died.
Set across the course of a single momentous day and narrated by a chorus of voices, Fiona Melrose''s second novel is a hymn to an extraordinary city and its people, an ambitious homage to Virginia Woolf''s Mrs Dalloway, and a devastating personal and political manifesto on mothers and daughters, justice and love.
''Beautifully observed'' Mail on Sunday
''Woolf produced blooms that are impossible to emulate. Johannesburg provides evidence of a novelist who can grow inimitable flowers herself'' Spectator
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