My Traitors Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience - Softcover

Malan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802136842 ISBN 13: 9780802136848

Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Malan, former South African crime reporter, searches for the truth behind apartheid, and finds it not in the way blacks and whites live, but in the way they die at one another's hands.

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Review:

"Rian Malan has written a tragic masterpiece and a classic of our time" (Time Out)

"My Traitor's Heart is a tremendous book about candour, honour and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it" (Michael Herr)

"A tortured, mesmerising attempt to capture exactly the conflicts of [Malan’s] upbringing, conflicts that went to the soul of the emerging nation." (Guardian)

"The remorseless exercise of a reporter's anguished conscience gives us a South Africa we thought we knew all about: but we knew nothing" (John Le Carre)

"A great swirling devil of a book and it is equal in every way to its vast subject - the black and white country of the heart" (Don DeLillo)

Book Description:

Hailed as a masterpiece around the world, this exploration of apartheid’s legacy is horrifying yet beautiful, harrowing yet hopeful.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0802136842
• ISBN 13: 9780802136848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368