Jozi: A Novel - Perfect HlongwaneCondition: New This unique collection of stories offers a biting portrait of inner city Jo'burg (Johannesburg), 'a place where dreams come to die.' Written by first time author Perfect Hlongwane, Jozi is a series of interlinked stories centering around an eclectic ensemble of characters, conjuring a city both familiar and surprising. With its vein of painful self examination, evocative sense of place, and unflinching exploration of the rawer aspects

The murderer is still at large

a city kid in an insular community

is spending the year in Nepal

Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice

and received the Pablo Neruda Award from the Chilean government in 1994

naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore

He worked on South Africa’s gold mines for many years before he was retrenched

social empowerment

the necessity of art

Some characters appeared in Shantaram

Will they say I do

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela reveals the heroism of a man who refused to compromise his moral values in the face of extraordinary punishment