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My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah
A moving, witty memoir about a Jewish childhood in apartheid-era South Africa __________ 'Hilarious and heart-breaking. Hirson has the ability to evoke not just the city of his childhood, but his own thirteen-year-old voice and imagination of the world - with its perceptions, terrors and incomprehensions' William Kentridge 'This gem of a book is truly a gift for readers' Vrye Weekblad 'Poetic... The intensity and honesty Hirson brings to his narrative brings it close to the reader... Singular' News24 __________ "There were three other people present, or five, depending on whom one chooses to include... The ceremony lasted precisely thirty minutes, as had been agreed on well in advance, not a...
The House Next Door to Africa
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.
The Dancing and the Death on Lemon Street
"On a street in the leafy northern suburbs of Johanesburg, in early 1960, people live their lives, fall in love, suffer from loneliness. Events of the day do not leave everyone indifferent: the great Clydesdale mine disaster, the assassination attempt on Dr Verwoerd, the Sharpeville Massacre, all reveal and alter the way people are. Indirectly pushing one of them to revenge"--P. [4] of cover.
We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way
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.
I Remember King Kong (the Boxer)
"'I Remember King Kong (the Boxer)' is a book of reminiscences which are, and could only be, South African in their timbre, scope and feeling. The memories, some personal and some public, will take you on a journey to a time and place that you'll savour long after you have put the book down."--Provided by publisher.
The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories
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.
Village Voices
A celebration of the legacy of the Village Voice bookshop in Paris, founded by Odile Hellier in 1982—a hub of social life and a refuge for artists, writers, and anglophone literary life for over three decades until it closed in 2012. “My entire sense of Paris centers on Odile and the bookshop.” —Richard Ford "For literature lovers, it’s a feast." —Publishers Weekly In July of 1982, on a quiet boulevard just off the bustling Boulevard Saint-German, Odile Hellier opened the Village Voice Bookshop. Over the next three decades, the blue-shuttered shop would become one of the most famous English-language bookstores in Paris—a vivacious hub for artists, writers, and a haven for an...
In the Heat of Shadows
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; and enduring concern with the touchstones of love, loss, memory, and acts of witnessing. In the Heat of Shadows: South African Poetry 1996-2013 presents work by 33 poets and includes some translations from Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho and Xitsonga. This collection follows on from Denis Hirson’s 1997 anthology The Lava of this Land: South African Poetry 1960-1996.
Signs for an Exhibition
Eliza Kentridges's poems are autobiographical. She was born in Johannesburg, the daughter of two lawyers who fought apartheid. In her twenties she left South Africa for England, where she became an artist. Against the dramatic background of her home country's history, her focus is quieted, small and interior. With her mother afflicted by a serious neurological illness, she writes about family, love and place, as a woman who vividly recalls her girlhood self, gently and almost incidentally approaching one of the biggest questions: how does one live a life?
