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MY TRAITOR'S HEART A South African Exile Returns by Rian Malan Paperback New
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780802136848
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802136842
ISBN-13
9780802136848
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1653788
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Traitor's Heart : A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
Features
Reprint
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
Praise for My Traitor's Heart "A tremendous book about candor, honor, and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it." --Michael Herr "Here is truth-telling at its most exemplary and courageous. 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 Carr "Rian Malan is a master of landscape and a master of narrative, with a gift of living language that bubbles up from a full heart and an active mind." --V.S. Naipaul "Malan is bent on uncovering another level altogether of South African life, and he does so beautifully... He sharply expands our understanding of his strange, strange country's complexities." --William Finnegan, The New York Times " My Traitor's Hear t grips you by the throat and won't let go." --Peter Gorner, The Chicago Tribune "A passionate, blazingly honest testament... Those who read it will never again see South Africa in quite the same way." --Christopher Hope, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Rian Malan could always see the story when others had long since lost the plot. Sometimes he went completely off his head as he drew out the fugitive detail, digging in dirt for a diamond, shaking up the grievously overlooked. He tried to escape the word. He went fishing for five years, trying to hide from the relentlessly pursuing plot, but to no avail. When it comes to writing, Malan is dangerously good and there is no getting away." --Lin Sampson "A book that is part investigative reportage, part personal confession, and in all respects remarkable... Penetrating, comprehensive, and-in its relentless accumulation of ghastly detail-heartbreaking." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "Here, as in nothing I've read before, is the demotic voice of black and Afrikaner South Africa... Triumphant." --Salman Rushdie "An unflinching and intimate story of a man fighting against injustice in his homeland, even as he must come to terms with his own family's poisonous role there." --Austin Merrill, Vanity Fair, Praise for My Traitor's Heart "A tremendous book about candor, honor, and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it." --Michael Herr "Here is truth-telling at its most exemplary and courageous. 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 Carr "Rian Malan is a master of landscape and a master of narrative, with a gift of living language that bubbles up from a full heart and an active mind." --V.S. Naipaul "Malan is bent on uncovering another level altogether of South African life, and he does so beautifully... He sharply expands our understanding of his strange, strange country's complexities." --William Finnegan, The New York Times " My Traitor's Heart grips you by the throat and won't let go." --Peter Gorner, The Chicago Tribune "A passionate, blazingly honest testament... Those who read it will never again see South Africa in quite the same way." --Christopher Hope, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Rian Malan could always see the story when others had long since lost the plot. Sometimes he went completely off his head as he drew out the fugitive detail, digging in dirt for a diamond, shaking up the grievously overlooked. He tried to escape the word. He went fishing for five years, trying to hide from the relentlessly pursuing plot, but to no avail. When it comes to writing, Malan is dangerously good and there is no getting away." --Lin Sampson "A book that is part investigative reportage, part personal confession, and in all respects remarkable... Penetrating, comprehensive, and-in its relentless accumulation of ghastly detail-heartbreaking." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "Here, as in nothing I've read before, is the demotic voice of black and Afrikaner South Africa... Triumphant." --Salman Rushdie "An unflinching and intimate story of a man fighting against injustice in his homeland, even as he must come to terms with his own family's poisonous role there." --Austin Merrill, Vanity Fair
Dewey Decimal
968/.00992 B
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor's Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South Africa after coming face-to-face with the atrocities and terrors of an undeclared civil war between the races. This book is the searing account of his return after eight years of uneasy exile.Armed with new insight and clarity, Malan explores apartheid's legacy of hatred and suffering, bearing witness to the extensive physical and emotional damage it has caused to generations of South Africans on both sides of the color line. Plumbing the darkest recesses of the white and black South African psyches, Malan ultimately finds his way toward the light of redemption and healing. My Traitor's Heart is an astonishing book -- beautiful, horrifying, profound, and impossible to put down., A former South African crime reporter who had fled his country after witnessing unimaginable atrocities recounts his experiences on returning to find the truth behind apartheid. Reprint., 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., A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor's Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South Africa after coming face-to-face with the atrocities and terrors of an undeclared civil war between the races. This book is the searing account of his return after eight years of uneasy exile. Armed with new insight and clarity, Malan explores apartheid's legacy of hatred and suffering, bearing witness to the extensive physical and emotional damage it has caused to generations of South Africans on both sides of the color line. Plumbing the darkest recesses of the white and black South African psyches, Malan ultimately finds his way toward the light of redemption and healing. My Traitor's Heart is an astonishing book -- beautiful, horrifying, profound, and impossible to put down.
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