This exhilarating novel by prize–winning author Ivan Vladislavić is a linguistic tour de force, a spectacular carnival of post–modern commentary, u...
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May 30, 2011
J.L.
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I think it was a little too experimental for my taste. I figured since it was set in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa, during the time that the neighborhood was waning, that it would reveal more about the PLACE. But it was kind of a weird book.
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Dec 16, 2009
Tracey
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A really awesome story of a retired proofreader who critiques the changing apartheid society in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1970s using his editing vocabulary, extensive knowledge of etymology, and other proofreading skills. It is challenging, a dictionary is often needed, but also a very different kind of apartheid book because events are only learned as they are perceived by the narrator who doesn't pay attention to actual events as much as he does to the errors they are presented with.
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