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The distance

by Ivan Vladislavić

South African fiction (English)
4.0
Open Library
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About this book

"In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers, an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their shared past. But can a story ever belong equally to two people? Against a spectacular backdrop, the heyday of the greatest showman of them all, Vladislavi♯⁷ unfolds a small, fragmentary story of family life and boyish ambition, illuminating the origins of a writing life and the limits of language"--by publisher.

Themes & subjects

South African fiction (English)

About the author

Ivan Vladislavić

1957

Author

Ivan Vladislavić

Pages

269

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

1

Language

English

Publisher

Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa

ISBN

9781415210260

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