Tales of the Metric System by Coovadia, Imraan

Tales of the Metric System (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780821422267)

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Tales of the Metric System by Coovadia, Imraan

Tales of the Metric System

$25.95
Tales of the Metric System by Coovadia, Imraan

Tales of the Metric System

$25.95
Format: Paperback
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In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country's transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the diverse perspectives of his many characters. An elite white housewife married to a radical intellectual; a rock guitarist; the same guitarist's granddaughter thirty years later; a teenaged boy at the mercy of mob justice--each story takes place over one of ten days across the decades, and each protagonist has his own stakes, her own moment in time, but each is equally caught in the eddies of change. Tales of the Metric System is clear eyed, harrowing, and daring.

Author: Imraan Coovadia
ISBN-10: 082142226X
ISBN-13: 9780821422267
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2016
Pages: 394
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 05/26/2016
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2016
By Imraan Coovadia
By Imraan Coovadia
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Imraan Coovadia directs the creative writing program at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of several previous novels, including High Low In-between (winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize), and has written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

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