Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir

by Mark Gevisser

Book Overview

An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions

Lost and Found in Johannesburg begins with a transgression--the armed invasion of a private home in the South African city of Mark Gevisser's birth. But far more than the riveting account of a break-in, this is a daring exploration of place and the boundaries upon which identities are mapped.
As a child growing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374535027
• ISBN13: 9780374535025
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"