A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg

A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg is Harry Kalmer’s spellbinding ode to Johannesburg and its people.

This is the story of Sara, who poses stiffly for a photo with her four children at Turffontein concentration camp in 1901, and of Abraham, who paints the street names on Johannesburg’s kerbs. It is the tale of their grandson Zweig, a young architect who has to leave Johannesburg when he falls in love with the wrong person, and of Marceline, a Congolese mother who flees to the city only to be caught up in a wave of xenophobic violence.

Spanning more than a hundred years, A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg is a novel that documents and probes the lives of the inhabitants of this incomparable African city — the exiled, those returning from exile, and those who never left.

• Author
• Harry Kalmer

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Penguin Random House South Africa

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781485903475

• Release date
• 2017