A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg

A woven tale of Johannesburg’s own people, those who left, came back or never went away, through a hundred years of fortune and misfortune. It might start at a tent in the Turffontein camp, on a Sunday in May 2008 when Samson Dube is killed for being foreign, or 41 years earlier, when Zweig and Serenita must leave because the law forbids their love. Its parts may be taken in almost any order.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

329 pages in the original

Set in

South Africa

First published

2014 by Queillerie

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9780795800801 (original)

9781485903475 (Penguin Books, South Africa)