My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
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.
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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