The distance / Ivan Vladislavić.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vladislavić, Ivan, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa--Fiction.

South Africa.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

290 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Edition:

First Archipelago Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2020.

Summary:

"In his youth in 1970s suburban Pretoria, Joe falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He diligently scrapbooks newspaper clippings of his his hero, recording the showman's words and taking in his inimitable brand of resistance. Forty years later, digging out his yellowed archive of Ali clippings and comic books, Joe sets out to write a memoir of his childhood. Calling upon his brother Branko for help, their two voices interweave to unearth a shared past. Reconstructing a world of bioscopes, Formica tabletops, Ovaltine, and drop-offs in their father's Ford Zephyr, conjuring the textures of childhood, what emerges is a collision of memories, patching the gulf between past and present. Meaning arises in the gaps between fact and imagination, and words themselves become markers of the past and the turbulent present. In this formally inventive, fragmented novel, Vladislavić evokes the beauty, and the strangeness, of remembering and forgetting, and explores what it means to be at odds with one's surroundings"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781939810762

1939810760

OCLC:

1132238865