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Achmat Dangor was born in Johannesburg in 1948, the year the Nationalist Party, the architects of apartheid, won power in South Africa. Winner of many literary prizes, including the 1998 Charles Herman Bosman prize for Kafka's Curse, he is the author of three collections of poetry, a novella and short-story collection, and a novel. This is his first book to be published in the United States. He lives in South Africa.
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- PublisherRandom House USA Inc
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0375405100
- ISBN 13 9780375405105
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages225
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