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A "beautifully written, funny and deeply moving" memoir about a son's reckoning with his father's political idealism, set against the menacing backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa (Finuala Dowling, author of The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers) A bestselling South African writer known for tackling history and memory finally makes his American debut Witty and deeply poignant, My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a breathtaking account of one man be...

Tells the story of a family of exiles from Czarist Russia who settle in South Africa and years later face another exile for working against apartheid.

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South African poetry today is charged with restlessness, burstng with diversity. Gone is the intense inward focus required to deal with a situation of systematic oppression, the enclosing effort of concentration on a single predicament. While politics and identity continue to be central themes, the poetry since the late 1990s reveals a richer investigation of ancestors and history, alongside more experimentation with language and translation, ...

All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the National Party was on the upsurge, to the early 1990s when the legal framework of apartheid was abolished, the ANC was legalized and Mandela was released.

The lava of change has spilled over South Africa again as apartheid as ended. What sort of social and artistic emerges as it cools? This anthology, containing more than two hundred poems by over fifty poets, spans five distinct historical periods in the contemporary development of South Africa, from the 1960s Durban worker strikes to the dismantling of apartheid in the 1990s. Most of the poems have been written in English, but forty-eight have...

Based on more than 20 years of living in South Africa, this book of reminiscences recalls the flavor and timbre that can only be associated with this unique country. With each line beginning with "I remember, " this memoir recounts such memories as the taste of Marmite and syrup and the sounds of African music on LM radio. With a mix of personal and public memories, readers are taken on a journey that will be savored.

A work of deeply sensitive memories and reflections, this autobiography--a political history of the time--chronicles the turbulent life of a South African man. Including details of the author's childhood years, experiences while in the army, the loss of his father, and the memory of a nation, this book's delicate and finely tuned phrases appeal to the reader as the narrative twists and turns through time.