Michela Wrong

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

A sign common in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1956 Photo: Getty
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  • Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg

    Mark Gevisser

    Granta, pp. 354

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