South African writer Mark Gevisser has released a memoir about growing up in Johannesburg, in which where he traces the city’s apartheid past seen through the eyes of a young Jewish boy discovering his sexuality.
As a bookish child, Mark Gevisser played a game he has retrospectively called ‘Dispatcher’ in which he would plot routes in his parents’ street guide, the Holmden’s Register of Johannesburg, using the index to place names.
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