Flat/White

The strange case of a new immigrant in an old building and things going badly

By: Ted Botha

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Paperback | 16 October 2014

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288 Pages

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When Pretoria boy Ted Botha moved to New York City, it was not so much as an immigrant as someone on the make - a travelling South African looking to broaden his horizons. In no time he'd lied his way into a job at Time Out New York, before finding himself working for Vanity Fair and other magazines. At the same time, he stumbled upon a small dilapidated building in Harlem and moved in. Two blocks away in Manhattan, apartments sold for $1 million and more, yet he got his for an almost unbelievable $10,000. But what seemed like a fantastic opportunity quickly turned into a world of chaos, lies, conspiracies, suspicion, drug dealers, police raids and death threats. Behind much of it slithered that terrible beast Botha thought he had left behind in South Africa, race. The more his boer-maak-'n-plan attitude was sabotaged and the worse things got in the New World, the more he thought of the world he had left behind, Africa. Could he ever reconcile the two and survive the anarchy rampant in the old building? In equal parts memoir, comedy and tragedy, not to mention a travelogue/travelog - with some detours into American spelling Botha learnt/learned along the way - 'Flat/White' brings to life a cast of characters that you won't soon forget, in a story you won't actually believe is true. But it is.

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