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Suitable for those who want to put their faith in a writer who knows - and loves - his city from the inside out: Suketu Mehta's "Maximum City", Edmund White's "The Flaneur", Orhan Pamuk's "Istanbul", and Joseph Brodsky's "Watermark".

This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security insecurity? is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as one...

In diesen Kurzgeschichten afrikanischer Autor:innen geht es um das süße Verlangen, die sinnlichen Freuden - und die Liebe mit all ihren Wonnen und Abgründen. Hier löst Frida Kahlo eine Orgie im Küchenschrank aus, es gibt verbotene Liebe unter dem Jambul, Liebschaften und Affären, Dreiecksbeziehungen, heiße Backwaren und Liebeskummer, queeres Dating und Politik in der Liebe ...Eben was mittwochs so ist, und freitags.