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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...
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.
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.
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.
White Scars
White Scars also explores the moments at which Hirson read the four books. They include the arrest of his anti-apartheid activist father, Baruch Hirson in the early 1960's; his own move to Paris in the 1970's; his father's death, and the end of a period of mourning for him.
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.
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.
Worlds in One Country
Worlds in one country is a compact, inclusive history of writing in South Africa from the nineteenth century to 1994 that crosses boundaries of language and colour, including prose, poetry and theatre.
