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Jozi
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Price: R 160
Publication Date: 2013-10-16
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978 1 86914 226 1
Width: 140
Height: 220
Pages: 128


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Review by Bongani Kona
aerodrome.co.za

Bongani Kona reviews Jozi, the exciting debut novel by Perfect Hlongwane

The premise of Perfect Hlongwane’s unsettling debut, Jozi, is contained in the novel’s opening lines: “Jozi, the Johannesburg we know, of the inner city – Braamfontein, Joubert Park, Hillbrow, Berea, Yeoville – is a heartless place. It is a monster that swallows people whole.”

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Review by Joshua Maserow
groundup.org.za, 12 June 2014

Jozi: A Novel: a glimpse through a scratched looking glass

Jozi: a novel is the debut of Swaziland-born journalist, lecturer and editor, Perfect Hlongwane. It is a gut-wrenching tale of loss, anger, love and death in the new South Africa.

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Review by Jane Rosenthal
Mail & Guardian 13 June 2014

Of Kleva Dreams and Integrity

Anyone who has lived in Johannesburg will know it has a wonderful climate, that early mornings are often beautiful. Surprisingly, Perfect Hlongwane often invokes these, along with an underlying faith in life and vitality in what is otherwise quite a dark portrait of the city. In honed-down, crisp form several linked anecdotes reveal the lives of a group of young guys in Johannesburg, who have ended up in the inner city to pursue their dreams.

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This novel collection by first-time author Perfect Hlongwane offers a biting portrait of inner-city Jo’burg, ‘a place where dreams come to die’.

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