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Tales of the Metric System
Contributor(s): Coovadia, Imraan (Author)
ISBN: 082142226X     ISBN-13: 9780821422267
Publisher: Ohio University Press
OUR PRICE:   $24.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | African
Dewey: 823.914
Series: Modern African Writing
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" (1.10 lbs) 394 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
 
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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.