The Exploded View (Paperback)

Paperback. From a South African writer who is poised to enjoy a much higher profile on the word stage, a gorgeously-wrought, ingeniously structured novel tracing the interwoven lives of four characters in Johannesburg.The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavic, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johannesburg: a statistician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist interested in genocide, and a contractor who puts up billboards on construction sites. Arcing across distance and time, Vladislavic deftly explodes our comfortable views and brings us behind the curtains of the city while subtly expanding our notions of what is possible in the novel form. A gorgeously-wrought, ingeniously structured novel tracing the interwoven lives of four characters in Johannesburg. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…