The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey - Softcover

Hochschild, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618758259 ISBN 13: 9780618758258

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2007

Synopsis

History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made.

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Paperback

About the Author:

ADAM HOCHSCHILD is the author of seven books. King Leopold's Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as was To End All Wars. His Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award. He lives in Berkeley, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0618758259
• ISBN 13: 9780618758258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320