Portrait with Keys The City of Johannesburg Unlocked [Paperback]

This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu MehtasLike the city it studies,A wonderful book about Johannesburg....This is a love letter to Johannesburg and a truly marvelous piece of work. I read it and was deeply moved.A rare, brilliant writer. His work eschews all cant. Its sheer verve, the way it burrows beneath ossified forms of writing, its discipline and the distance it places between itself and the jaded preoccupations of local fiction, distinguish it.Freshly engaging, with its wry take on security and a homeless underclass that stashes its winter wardrobe in manholes beneath Africas richest city.A passionate account by a man who loves his city, shocking because it so embraces the things most people try to avoid thinking about.Reminds me sometimes of Orhan PamuksSurely one of the most ingenious love lettersfull of violence, fear, humour, and cunningever addressed to a city. Geoff Dyer