222 mm x 146 mm, softcover, 288 pages RRP: R180, ISBN 978-1-4152-0107-7 Publication date: March 2010, Category: Short Stories Description Two sought-after collections of short stories by Ivan Vladislavić are brought together and made available again in this new volume. Vladislavić’s abilities as a master of understatement and brevity are brilliantly demonstrated in these stories from Missing Persons (1989), for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize, and Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996), featuring the two stories that won him the Thomas Pringle Award. From Flashback Hotel, page 9 They killed the Prime Minister during the winter.     I was ten years old. That year my parents and I moved to a house in a new suburb. Granny moved with us. Grandfather said he was too old to move, so he stayed behind in the old house. He gave us a post box and two plastic numbers for the gate, and wished us everything of the best in our new home.     It was an ordinary place. Three bedrooms, a lounge, a dining-room. No gnomes. No crazy paving. A reasonable path of solid cement from the front gate to the verandah steps. Laying the path was the first major task my father and I undertook.     When we moved in, the house still smelt of raw wood, fresh paint, putty. There was much to be done: the floors would have to be sealed, the fingerprints cleaned off the window-panes, splatters of paint scraped off the tiles in the bathroom and the kitchen. To read on Read a review by Michiel Heyns for the Sunday Independent here. Read a review by Moira Lovell for the Witness here. To buy this book www.exclus1ves.co.za www.kalahari.net home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za