Bookshelf
study guides books reading lists e-books
home sign in my orders my e-books my trolley my account contact

| browse books |
books
 

books

| book details |

The Man Who Sleeps in My Office

By (author) Jason Sommer

| on special |

normal price: R 4 229.95

Price: R 3 806.95

| book description |

With grace and style, Jason Sommer considers how to live in the wake of history among those who are indelibly marked by it. On the surface a book of poems composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, The Man Who Sleeps in My Office offers more than a poetic chronicle of suffering and loss. Instead, Sommer - the son of a survivor - has discovered a delicate balance that allows him to be in and of history without succumbing to it. In these works, both the seen and the unseen - the failed or rejected vision - alter the seer, as the limit of one thing becomes the verge of something else, Whether about the Holocaust, the dog he'll never own, or love between a husband and wife or parent and child, these poems savor the mysterious instant when alternatives of vision unfold.

| product details |



Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | The University of Chicago Press
Published date | 20 Apr 2004
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 80
Dimensions | 25 x 13 x 2mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 680g
ISBN | 978-0-2267-6803-8
Readership Age |
BISAC | fiction / literary

| other options |

| back |
| your trolley |
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |

| specials |

Exiles: Times book of the month 'Stanley Kubrick meets MR James'

Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
Forthcoming
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.

Theory & Practice

Michelle de Kretser
Hardback
192 pages
was: R 422.95
now: R 380.95
Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days

The Correspondent

Virginia Evans
Hardback
288 pages
was: R 450.95
now: R 405.95
Stock is usually dispatched in 6-12 days from date of order

Broken Country: AMAZON'S BOOK OF THE YEAR - THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

Clare Leslie Hall
Paperback / softback
320 pages


Enquiries only
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
Copyright 2026 |  terms and conditions