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Asleep awake asleep : stories / Jo-Ann Bekker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bekker, Jo-Ann, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South African fiction (English)--21st century.
- South African fiction (English).
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (108 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town, South Africa : Modajaji Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- The thirty-nine stories in Asleep Awake Asleep can be read as a hand-drawn narrative map, charting the course of a country's turbulent history. Together they tell a coming of age and a coming to consciousness story, as Rip - child, adult, journalist, partner, mother - revisits milestones marked and signposts ignored or unseen. Set in the suburbs and newsrooms of South African towns and cities and their wilder surrounds, there are vignettes of relationships; tales of political assassinations, murder and betrayal, and questions asked about complicity and reparation.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1
- Dolphins left a chocolate in the fridge
- 2
- Transplanted
- Starlings
- Shards
- Chosen
- Hypocrites
- Lesson
- Helen and the mountain
- Profile
- Baby dolls
- Danger Point
- 3
- I was wearing jeans
- Riptide
- Carousel
- Fallacies
- Tongue-tied
- Amnesia
- Peripheral
- Caged
- Other mothers
- 4
- Separate schedules
- We arrive in the winter
- Rosalind
- A garden full
- Jay &
- the lynx
- Contractions
- Confessions
- Stone cold
- Swimming with crocodiles
- 5
- Skin
- Candlelit
- Rapunzel
- Visiting rites
- Alphabetically
- The Good Housekeeping Magazine Quiz
- Game farm
- Displays
- What Nombuyiselo said
- 6
- Embers
- Notes
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-928215-79-3
- OCLC:
- 1114969558
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