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Double Negative

Teju Cole

2012200 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2012
first published
  • 2012Penguin Random House South Africa · 203 pages · ENGISBN 9781415202111
  • 2012Penguin Random House South Africa · 203 pages · ENGISBN 9781415202128
  • 2013And Other Stories · ENGISBN 9781908276278
  • 2013And Other Stories · 200 pages · ENGISBN 9781908276261

Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock on their doors in search of a story. Auerbach's images of the first two will become classic portraits, but soon the light fades. Lister only reaches the third house decades later, returning to post-apartheid South Africa and a Johannesburg altered almost beyond recognition.

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