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How to get around South Africa's many boundaries

In Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg, Mark Gevisser remembers the secret roads and escape routes a young gay like him — and other dispossessed people — took in the land of apartheid

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg Mark Gevisser

Granta, pp.354, £18.99, ISBN: 9781847088581

There are writers whose prose style is so fluid, so easy, the reader feels as though he has been taken by the hand and is being gently led down a path by a guide who can be trusted to point out interesting landmarks, allow the odd meander, but always keep firmly on course.

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Michela Wrong’s books include In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz and It’s Our Turn to Eat: the Story of a Kenyan WhistleblowerDispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg is available from the Spectator Bookshop, £14.99, Tel: 08430 600033

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