Flashback Hotel. Early Stories

Title: Flashback Hotel
Subtitle: Early Stories
Author: Ivan Vladislavic
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Umuzi
Cape Town, South Africa 2010
ISBN 9781415201077 / ISBN 978-1-4152-0107-7
Softcover, 14 x 22 cm, 285 pages

About: Flashback Hotel. Early Stories

Here, two sought-after collections of early short stories by Ivan Vladislavic are brought together and made available again in this new volume, Flashback Hotel, Early Stories. Ivan Vladislavic’s mastery of understatement and brevity is brilliantly demonstrated in these stories from Missing Persons (1989), for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize, and Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996), featuring the two stories that won him the Thomas Pringle Award.

Ivan Vladislavic is a novelist, essayist and editor. He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, Portrait with Keys and Double Negative. Among his recent publications are Flashback Hotel, a compendium of early stories, and The Loss Library, a reflection on writing. He has edited volumes on architecture and art. His work has won several prizes, including the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. In 2015, he was awarded Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.

Content: Flashback Hotel. Early Stories

Missing Persons (published in 1989)
The Prime Minister is Dead
Flashback Hotel
Sightseeing
Journal of a Wall
The Box
Movements
We Came to the Monument
A Science of Fragments
Tsafendas's Diary
When My Hands Burst into Flames
The Terminal Bar
Propaganda by Monuments
The Tuba
Propaganda by Monuments (published in 1996)
Autopsy
The whites only Bench
The Omniscope (Pat. Pending)
The Book Lover
Alphabets for Surplus People
Courage
Isle of Capri
'Kidnapped'
The Firedogs
Acknowledgements