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Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#321489-XA18
Titel	Welcome to Our Hillbrow
Auteur	Mpe, Phaswane
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Pietermaritzburg : University of Natal Press
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	0869809954
ISBN13	9780869809952
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Welcome To Our Hillbrow is a ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow - microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge with which the Drum writers wrote... (Lees verder) Sophiatown into being.
Pagina's	124
Conditie	Goed — Browned.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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