Distance
In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad
Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers,
an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks.
Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both
insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother
Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their sha...
In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad
Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers,
an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks.
Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both
insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother
Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their sha...
