"Always warm-hearted, sometimes comic, ultimately damning."J. M. Coetzee "I was enthralled by [Tony Eprile's] gorgeous prose, his genius for transforming pain into art, and not least, by the fiercely comic gift of his unforgettable, and unforgetting, narrator," writes Margot Livesey about this long-awaited first novel. Eprile fuses a searing political and cultural satire with a haunting coming-of-age story to render South Africa's turbulent past with striking clarity. Paul Sweetbreadcursed with a perfect memory in a country ...
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"Always warm-hearted, sometimes comic, ultimately damning."J. M. Coetzee "I was enthralled by [Tony Eprile's] gorgeous prose, his genius for transforming pain into art, and not least, by the fiercely comic gift of his unforgettable, and unforgetting, narrator," writes Margot Livesey about this long-awaited first novel. Eprile fuses a searing political and cultural satire with a haunting coming-of-age story to render South Africa's turbulent past with striking clarity. Paul Sweetbreadcursed with a perfect memory in a country where amnesia is endemicreflects on his traumatic past: a doting mother plucked from a Chekhov play, authoritarian schoolteachers who spouted the government's version of history, and the violence lurking beneath the civilized Jewish world of Johannesburg in the twilight of apartheid. As the novel builds to a harrowing conclusion, Sweetbread, a veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, is forced to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, with astonishing results.
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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First Edition copy of the author's first novel. (Editorial comment: this is a tremendous book; please read it. ) Fine in a Fine DJ (unclipped). In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0393058883. Signed and inscribed by author on front flyleaf. Very light bumping to spine extremities. Else binding clean. Pages clean. DJ clean & bright.; GFHA17; 9.5 x 6.25"; 297 pages; Signed by Author.
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