
Waiting for Leila
Title:
Waiting for Leila
Author:
Dangor, Achmat, 1948-
ISBN:
9780869754719
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Randburg, South Africa : Ravan Press, 1995.
Physical Description:
140 p. ; 19 cm.
Series:
Ravan writers series
Ravan writers series.
Contents:
Waiting for Leila -- The homecoming -- Jobman -- A strange romance -- The visit -- In the shadow of paradise.
Abstract:
Samad's search for Leila is an odyssey through a world where the jackhammers are destroying more than bricks and mortar: they are tearing into the souls of people, brutalising them, leaving them with hearts as empty as the shop windows in Hanover Street. Waiting for Leila is a powerful indictment of a way of life to which so many were condemned; but despite this, as Samad says: 'Our ghosts are ineradicable.'.
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