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037			_cPurchased _nNational Book Stall,Ernakulam
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bHOP/JI
100			_aHope,Christopher
245			_aJIMFISH _bOr ten years on the wrong side of history _cChristopher Hope
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bAtlantic Books _c2015/01/01
300			_g181
500			_aSummary: "In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict: 'He's very odd, this Jimfish you've hauled in. If he's white he is not the right sort of white. But if he's black, who can say? We'll wait before we classify him. I'll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because he's a real fish out of water, this one is.' So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, a South African Everyman, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation.
650			_aFiction
650			_aSouth African Fiction
650			_aSouth Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction.
650			_aRace relations
942			_cLEN
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