"Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."―Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review
In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's "horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful" prose to be "comparable to his fellow authors of Apartheid Andre Brink and Nadine Gordimer." As the novel builds to a harrowing conclusion, the protagonist, a veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, is forced to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee with astonishing results. Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee calls The Persistence of Memory "a story of coming to maturity in South Africa in the bad old days. Always warm-hearted, sometimes comic, ultimately damning." Reading group guide included."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "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. "Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780393327229
Book Description Condition: New. "Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."-Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278. . 2005. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780393327229
Book Description Condition: New. "Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."-Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278. . 2005. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780393327229
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "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. "Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780393327229
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "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. "Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780393327229
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