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The Restless Supermarket

2001 novel by Ivan Vadislavic

The Restless Supermarket is a novel by Croatian-South African author Ivan Vladislavic. It tracks the changes in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, during the 1990s, through the eyes of a grumpy, retired proof-reader who spends his life in one café. It was published by David Philip Publishers in Cape Town in 2001 and was recently reissued. The book was published again in 2014 by publishing house 'And Other Stories.'

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Critical reception

The novel won the Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards in 2002.[1]

A reviewer for The Independent, after describing it as "a masterpiece of voice", said, "A work of such immense imaginativeness, of such extraordinarily serious playfulness, comes along very rarely."[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Previous winners of the Alan Paton Award and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize". The Sunday Times. 4 June 2007. Archived from the original on 26 February 2009.
  2. [2]
    Mukherjee, Neel (15 April 2014). "The Restless Supermarket by Ivan Vladislavic - book review: 'Giddy, riotous satire on post-apartheid South Africa'". The Independent. Retrieved 10 February 2024.


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