Tales of the Metric System Contributor(s): Coovadia, Imraan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821422251 ISBN-13: 9780821422250 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | African |
Dewey: 823.92 |
LCCN: 2016478700 |
Series: Modern African Writing |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (1.35 lbs) 394 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country's transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the diverse perspectives of his many characters. An elite white housewife married to a radical intellectual; a rock guitarist; the same guitarist's granddaughter thirty years later; a teenaged boy at the mercy of mob justice--each story takes place over one of ten days across the decades, and each protagonist has his own stakes, her own moment in time, but each is equally caught in the eddies of change. Tales of the Metric System is clear eyed, harrowing, and daring. |