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Meheret, an Ethiopian journalist, recounts her family history and her love for "mixed-blood" South African Mano in a series of letters to her unborn child and is betrayed by another writer who plagiarizes her work
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0374207666
- ISBN 13 9780374207663
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition; First Printing. Square, tight, clean. Never read. No notes or ANY markings. Pages beginning to tone. DJ with 1" scrape at front, not price clipped ($22.95) ; Fine reading copy. ; 308 pages. Seller Inventory # 694
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1989. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374207666. 480 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Candy Jernigan. keywords: Literature South Africa Afrikaans. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An Afrikaaner by birth, Breyten Brevtenbach has led a life distinguished by his moral courage in opposing the South African state. Celebrated in his own country as the finest Afrikaans poet of his generation and as a painter of distinction, Breytenbach left South Africa for Europe in the late 1950s, pursuing both his artistic and his political vocations. He soon became one of the leading white opponents of apartheid. Breytenbach's clandestine return to South Africa in 1975 resulted in his arrest and imprisonment as a 'terrorist.' The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Breytenbach's memoir of his seven years in prison (two spent in solitary confinement) is a classic of prison literature. Memory of Snow and of Dust is something of a departure for Breytenbach. It is an ambitious, complex novel of contemporary Africa, as well as a profound meditation on exile, betrayal, and love. Set in the near future, both in Europe and in a South Africa now in chaos, the book chronicles the lives of Meheret, an Ethiopian journalist, and her lover, Mano, a South African actor of 'mixed blood.' In the long letter to her unborn child that constitutes the first part of the novel, Meheret recounts her family's history. It is a fantastic amalgam of people ranging from the Emperor Haile Selassie to Guebre Gsiaber, the tango champion of Ethiopia. Meheret tells of her love affair with Mano, and of how he was lured back to South Africa, arrested, and sentenced to death. Mano had returned to his country to do research for a film about the life of Barnum, an exiled white South African writer. Barnum is the counterpoint in the novel to Mano, a figure at once heroic and exploitative. Barnum incarnates all the contradictions of the artist and the politically engaged person, and in him Breytenbach has created a paradigmatic antihero. inventory #12981. Seller Inventory # z12981
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. A complex novel of contemporary Africa, as well as a profound meditation on exile, betrayal, and love. Binding of black full cloth with silver titles, very clean and unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. No edgewear. Pages clean and unmarked, moderately tanned, more so on outer edges. Unclipped clean jacket has a scuff on the fore edge. 308 pages. 9 x 5.75 inches. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1989. Seller Inventory # 012528
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