{"product_id":"johannesburg","title":"Fiona Melrose: Johannesburg [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 December 2013.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for her mother's eightieth birthday. She is determined, with lists and meals and flower arrangements, to show that she has become a fully capable woman. She knows, deep down, her mother will only ever see a lost cause.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile outside, crowds of citizens and the world's media have gathered to hear the expected announcement: Nelson Mandela has died. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set across the course of a single momentous day and narrated by a chorus of voices, Fiona Melrose's second novel is a hymn to an extraordinary city and its people, an ambitious homage to Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, and a devastating personal and political manifesto on mothers and daughters, justice and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully observed' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Woolf produced blooms that are impossible to emulate. \u003ci\u003eJohannesburg\u003c\/i\u003e provides evidence of a novelist who can grow inimitable flowers herself' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melrose, Fiona","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49529451544915,"sku":"9781472152862","price":12.84,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47491681059155,"sku":"XG81472152862","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/melrose-fiona-fiona-melrose-johannesburg-2018-paperback-59274697638227.jpg?v=1727951521","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/johannesburg","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}