- Jews, Autobiographical memory, South Africa, Fiction
"In The Persistence of Memory, Tony Eprile fuses political and cultural satire with a coming-of-age story to render South Africa's turbulent past." "The novel opens in the early 1970s.
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- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Tony Eprile
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 297
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, W.W. Norton
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393058888
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