{"product_id":"9780393071511","title":"Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Surely one of the most ingenious love  letters—full of violence, fear, humour, and  cunning—ever addressed to a city.” —Geoff  Dyer\u003c\/p\u003eThis dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of  the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage  about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s  \u003cem\u003eMaximum City\u003c\/em\u003e. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the  unpredictable, day-today transformation of his  embattled city: the homeless using manholes as  cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized  for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small,  devastating changes along the postapartheid  streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are  gated off, the keys multiply.  Security—insecurity?—is the growth industry.  Vladislavic, described as “one of the most  imaginative minds at work in South African  literature today” (André Brink), delivers “one  of the best things ever written about a great,  if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true  picture of the new South Africa” (Christopher  Hope).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121379066096,"sku":"9780393071511","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393071511_p0.jpg?v=1763696621","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393071511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}