Lost and Found in Johannesburg - A Memoir

This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people

About the author

Mark Gevisser is the author of A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream, published by Palgrave Macmillan in the UK, and by Jonathan Ball in South Africa under the title, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred. It was the winner of the Sunday Times 2008 Alan Paton Prize and was lauded by the Times Literary Supplement as 'probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid'. Mark is also a heritage curator and a political analyst. His journalism has appeared in publications and journals including Granta, the New York Times, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Public Culture, Foreign Affairs and Art in America. He currently writes most regularly for the Guardian in the UK and the Mail & Guardian and the Sunday Times in South Africa. He lives in Cape Town.

Summary

This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people

Product details

• Authors: Mark Gevisser, Gevisser Mark
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2015
• EAN: 9781783780990
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-099-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 200 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Memoirs, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Republic of South Africa, Social discrimination & inequality, African History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs