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The daughter of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo tells how, when Nelson Mandela came to power, she returned to her homeland to reclaim her father and find her mother's murderer, only to discover the shocking truth about her parents' lives. 20,000 first printing.
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A luminous achievement (OBSERVER)
Wonderfully moving ... anger, frustration, and the hunger for sharing wash her pages, though they never swamp the admiration for her parents (GUARDIAN)
Gillian Slovo has written a brave book, as unsparing of herself as it is of her parents ... a moving testimony (Christopher Hope, INDEPENDENT)
An extraordinary expression of the very nature of loving, which illuminates, with the anger and tenderness of deep emotion, that human territory we all occupy, and where we conceal so much from ourselves (Nadine Gordimer)
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Wonderfully moving ... anger, frustration, and the hunger for sharing wash her pages, though they never swamp the admiration for her parents (GUARDIAN)
Gillian Slovo has written a brave book, as unsparing of herself as it is of her parents ... a moving testimony (Christopher Hope, INDEPENDENT)
An extraordinary expression of the very nature of loving, which illuminates, with the anger and tenderness of deep emotion, that human territory we all occupy, and where we conceal so much from ourselves (Nadine Gordimer)
*The deeply moving memoir of the Slovo family which also encompasses much of the story of the Apartheid years.
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0316799238
- ISBN 13 9780316799232
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages282
- EditorDonald Roger
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