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Tales of the Metric System : A Novel /

"In Tales of the Metric System, Imraan Coovadia's sere, direct sentences light a fire as he parses South Africa across the decades, from 1970 into the present. As Salman Rushdie used Indian independence in Midnight's Children, Coovadia takes his homeland's transition from imperia...

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Autor principal: Coovadia, Imraan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, OH. : Ohio University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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