- Welcome to FictionDB, Guest
- | My Account
- | Help
Ivan Vladislavic
Books in Order: 9 titles
The book list is sorted in publication date order - newest first. You can sort the list by clicking on the Sort button. To see a simple list or a cover view list, click on the icons below.
-
The Distance
- Sep-2020
- / General Fiction
-
From this celebrated South African writer comes a formally inventive, lyrical portrait of childhood, memory, and the art of writing itself. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting ...
-
Flashback Hotel
- Mar-2019
- / Literary
-
Collects two volumes of short stories by one of contemporary South Africa's most acclaimed novelists.With a tender wit, Vladislavić cuts through the ordinary, the profound, and the truly perplexing to reveal absurdities and truisms alike. From a man...
-
101 Detectives
- Jun-2015
- / General Fiction
-
What kind of Detective am I? Eardrum or tympanum? Gullet or oesophagus? Pussy or pudenda? A Detective needs a language almost as much as a language needs a Detective. In this new collection of stories, award-winning author Ivan Vladislavic invites re...
-
The Restless Supermarket
- Apr-2014
- / Literary
-
It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar ...
-
Double Negative
- Nov-2013
- / Literary
-
"One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today." -- André Brink
Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, Double Negative is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life...
-
A Labour of Moles
- Oct-2012
- / General Fiction
-
"I found myself in the thick of things. I shut my eyes experimentally, opened them again. If I was dreaming, the scene should change - but no, everything was exactly as it had been before."So begins A Labour of Moles, by one of South Africa...
-
The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories
- Jan-2012
- / General Fiction
-
“Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil’s own job.”
In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan Vla... -
The Exploded View
- Jan-2004
- / General Fiction
-
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 Johannesburg: a statistician taking the national census, an engineer out ...
-
