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Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and moments of happiness.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- K. Sello Duiker
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press, David Phillips Publishers
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780821420362
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Kabelo Sello Duiker was a South African novelist. His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. His second novel, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, won the 2002 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter.
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