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South Africa : a traveler's literary companion / edited by Isabel Balseiro and Tobias Hecht.

Title
South Africa : a traveler's literary companion / edited by Isabel Balseiro and Tobias Hecht.
Publication
Berkeley, Calif. : Whereabouts Press : Distributed to the trade by PGW/Perseus Distribution, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Balseiro, Isabel
  • Hecht, Tobias, 1964-
Description
xvi, 239 p. : map; 19 cm.
Summary
Encompasses short stories by some of South Africa's forefront writers including Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, and Alan Paton, in an anthology that reflects the region's troubled history from the perspectives of both oppressors and the oppressed.
Series Statement
Traveler's literary companions
Uniform Title
Traveler's literary companion
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Short stories, South African (English)
  • South African fiction > 21st century
  • South African fiction > 21st century > Translations into English
  • South Africa > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Translations
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The alarmed house / Ivan Vladislavić -- Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele -- The hajii / Ahmed Essop -- Street Features / Zachariah Rapola -- Cry the beloved country / Alan Paton -- 1949 / Ronnie Govender -- Mating birds / Lewis Nkosi -- Maiden outing to Rondebosch / Jan Rabie -- Morning 1955 / Richard Rive -- Age of iron / J.M. Coetzee -- Krot / Rustum Kozain -- The turban / A.C. Jordan -- 1899 / Olive Schreiner -- The Rooinek / H.C. Bosman -- Nokulunga's wedding / Gcina Mhlope -- Episodes in the rural areas / Modikwe Dikobe -- The ultimate safari / Nadine Gordimer.
ISBN
  • 9781883513221 (alk. paper)
  • 1883513227 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008053983
OCLC
251196639
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library