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An aspiring painter and art critic
After checking into a backpacker’s hostel on Victoria Street he strolled down to the Royal Botanic Garden
He borrows more from writers’ lives than their work
” —The Complete Review
The Distant Sound Africa An aspiring painter and artby Gert Jonke translated by Jean M Snook Publication Date: 08 24 2010 ISBN: 9781564785268 A composer who has already given up composing because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which he soon equates with all the things he desires most: the perfect woman, the perfect city, the perfect work of art. Obsessed with his impossible quest, the man breaks out of