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To look at our own city as a place just as worthy of literary focus, just as complex, real, and poetic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese books bring cities, like Joburg and Dublin, to life on the page and invite readers to walk their streets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/bloomsday-at-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bloomsday at Bridge\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBloomsday at Bridge\u003c\/a\u003e is happening on 13 June 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"44463201","title":"Johannesburg Portraits, by Mike Alfred","description":"Johannesburg Portraits: From Lionel Phillips to Sibongile Khumalo is a book with pictures and descriptions that showcase the life and times of artists in Johannesburg from the era before the country was a free nation.","brand":"Bridge Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16595163201,"sku":"9781919931333","price":200.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/products\/Johannesburg_Portraits.jpg?v=1575931604"},{"product_id":"9781415201077","title":"Flashback Hotel, by Ivan Vladislavic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo sought-after collections of short stories by Ivan Vladislavic are brought together and made available again in this new volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVladislavic's mastery of understatement and brevity is brilliantly demonstrated in these stories from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMissing Persons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1989), for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePropaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1996), featuring the two stories that won him the Thomas Pringle Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Ivan Vladislavic\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781415201077\u003cbr\u003eFormat Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePages 285p.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bridge Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":27699834305,"sku":"9781415201077","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/products\/Flashback_Hotel.jpg?v=1575931628"},{"product_id":"9781770098183","title":"Zoo City by Lauren Beukes","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Arthur C Clarke Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. 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