My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR In '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag.
Rian Malan has written a tragic masterpiece and a classic of our time * Time Out *
My Traitor's Heart is a tremendous book about candour, honour and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courageNo one who reads it could ever forget it * Michael Herr *
A tortured, mesmerising attempt to capture exactly the conflicts of [Malan’s] upbringing, conflicts that went to the soul of the emerging nation. * Guardian *
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 Carre
A great swirling devil of a book and it is equal in every way to its vast subject - the black and white country of the heart -- Don DeLillo
My Traitor's Heart is a tremendous book about candour, honour and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courageNo one who reads it could ever forget it * Michael Herr *
A tortured, mesmerising attempt to capture exactly the conflicts of [Malan’s] upbringing, conflicts that went to the soul of the emerging nation. * Guardian *
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 Carre
A great swirling devil of a book and it is equal in every way to its vast subject - the black and white country of the heart -- Don DeLillo
Rian Malan was born in South Africa in 1954. His first book, My Traitor's Heart, was a bestseller. He has worked extensively as a journalist in South Africa and in the United States. He has since returned to Johannesburg to live.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099583462 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099583461 |
| Title | My Traitor's Heart |
| Author | Rian Malan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
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