- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (9 Sep 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330323296
- ISBN-13: 978-0330323291
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,696,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'A jewel box of a novel... exquisite.' Observer 'Hope finds in the post-War confusion of South Africa a mine of comic possibility... throughout this bright, fresh comedy, politics lurk in the shadows.' The Times 'Brilliance and charm... This is a wonderfully funny book.' Financial Times 'Touching and amusing... told without a wasted word.' Mail on Sunday"
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Set in the early 1950s in Badminton, a suburb suspended in time somewhere outside Johannesburg. To this time-locked place comes Swirsky, to open his pharmacy. With his talk of exotic places and gleaming bottles and jars, the children think of him as a magician - and the adults smell trouble.
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