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The Persistence of Memory. A Novel.
Tony Eprile
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Description for The Persistence of Memory. A Novel.
Paperback. "Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."-Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278.
In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's "horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful" prose to be "comparable to his fellow authors of Apartheid Andre Brink and Nadine Gordimer." As the novel builds to a harrowing conclusion, the protagonist, a veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, is forced to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee with astonishing results. Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee calls The Persistence of Memory "a story of coming to maturity in ... Read more
In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's "horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful" prose to be "comparable to his fellow authors of Apartheid Andre Brink and Nadine Gordimer." As the novel builds to a harrowing conclusion, the protagonist, a veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, is forced to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee with astonishing results. Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee calls The Persistence of Memory "a story of coming to maturity in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393327229
SKU
V9780393327229
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About Tony Eprile
Tony Eprile is the author of Temporary Sojourner & Other South African Stories, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He grew up in South Africa and lives in Bennington, Vermont.
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