# The Distance

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- Book: [The Distance](https://www.bookquiver.com/ivan-vladislavic/the-distance) ([The Distance.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ivan-vladislavic/the-distance.md))
- Authors: [Ivan Vladislavic](https://www.bookquiver.com/ivan-vladislavic)
- Publisher: archipelago
- ISBN: 978-19-3981-076-2
- Pages: 210
- Published: 2020-09-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A boxing bildungsroman - a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammed Ali in Apartheid South Africa. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed...