Phaswane Mpe

Welcome to our Hillbrow (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Welcome To Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow - microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge ,with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan South Africa
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781770104051
• Artikelnr.: 67519634

Autorenporträt

Phaswane Mpe was a South African poet and novelist. He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a lecturer in African literature. He did his Masters in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University in 1998. His debut novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, was published in 2001.