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Portrait with keys : the city of Johannesburg unlocked by Vladislavić, Ivan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“Surely one of the most ingenious love letters—full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning—ever addressed to a city.” —Geoff Dyer This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security—insecurity?—is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as “one of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today” (André Brink), delivers “one of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South Africa” (Christopher Hope).

Who reads Portrait with keys : the city of Johannesburg unlocked?

Author

Vladislavić, Ivan

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393071511

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14