The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavić, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johhanesburg: a stastician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist interested in genocide, and a contractor who puts up billboards on construction sites. Arcing across distance and time, Vladislavić deftly explodes our comfortable views and brings us behind the curtains of the city while subtly expanding our notions of what is possible in the novel form.
- ISBN10 0914671685
- ISBN13 9780914671688
- Publish Date 28 March 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Archipelago Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 196
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780914671688