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Flashback Hotel by Ivan VladislavicISBN: 9781415201077 Random House (Pty) Ltd South Africa, 01 March 2010 Soft cover, 304 pages Two sought after collections of short stories by Ivan Vladislavic are brought together and made available again in this new volume. Vladislavics mastery of understatement and brevity is brilliantly demonstrated in these stories from Missing Persons (1989), for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize, and Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996),

The background is the Eastern Cape

Saartjie made headlines once again as Nelson Mandela launched an international campaign to have her remains returned to the land of her birth

describing them in their own terms rather than presenting them as a reflex of modernity or reaction to colonialism

The 27 snippets collected here rarely contain much in the way of character

Systematically since 1994 the ANC government has betrayed the dream of democracy

continues to offer a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of classical thermodynamics

in magic and in memory

At times playful and at others deeply moving

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Among the crew is Ishmael

was established in 1916 principally to train the colonial administrators who ran the British Empire in the languages of Asia and Africa

The first contains an introductory chapter