To a Time-Locked Johannesburg Suburb Comes Nathan J. Swirsky to Open His Pharmacy. With His Stories of Exotic Places and His Gleaming Bottles and Jars, the Local Children Think of Him As a Magician. but the Adults Smell Trouble. It is the Early Fifties in Badminton, Johannesburg, Where All the Street-Names Recall British Kings and Queens and Where Retired Soldiers Relive the Desert War in Their Dusty Gardens. This Small-Town Dreamscape Erupts With the Arrival of Nathan J. Swirsky, a Pink Volcano With an Extravagant Moustache; a Magical Pharmacist Who Speaks of Exotic Travels to Faraway, Forbidden Places. in Alarm and Delight, the Children of Badminton Observe His Unlikely Resurrection...