The Restless Supermarket by Ivan Vladislavić
Named a 2014 Book of the Year by Neel Mukherjee (Irish Times) and Jason Diamond (Volume1Brooklyn)
‘The Restless Supermarket, by Ivan Vladislavic (And Other Stories), is set in turn-of-the-regime South Africa and features an unknowing, unreliable, white, racist narrator, Aubrey Tearle. It can be read as Vladislavic’s homage to Nabokov’s Pale Fire and is as imaginatively wild, as brilliantly conceived and written.’ – Neel Mukherjeee, Books of the Year, The Irish Times
‘Like a post-apartheid Archie Bunker, Vladislavic’s novel that takes place in the days leading up to Nelson Mandela’s election is funny only because it’s so sad to watch a person so stuck in their ways who are unable to accept change.’ – Jason Diamond, Volume1Brooklyn, Books of the Year 2014