The Quarry
 The hearts and minds of South Africans haven't changed: In this stunning novel, Mr Galgut tells the story of a fugitive from justice hitchhiking in the desolate backdrop of South Africa and who is picked up by a driver, a minister on his way to a remote [... more]
$12.00
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Herman Charles Bosman 1905-2005: A Centenary Selection
Author: Patrick Mynhardt Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9781868144167 ISBN: 186814416X Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2005-04-01 [... more]
$24.95
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A Guest of Honour
Carbon-Dating a Nobel Prize Winner: My book club chose Guest of Honour for at our last meeting. We wanted to read something by Nadine Gordimer, and we found a site on her which described Guest of Honour as "arguably her best book." Ignoring our [... more]
$16.50
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Whitethorn
Great storytelling - but haven't I read this before?: Let me start by saying this is a great coming of age story about a young boy Tom Fitzsaxby growing up during the 40's and 50's in South Africa. The writing style is written as if Tom is more of an [... more]
$44.25
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Foe (Essential Penguin)
Not Difficult, but Inscrutible: In Daniel Defoe's classic novel "Robinson Crusoe," the island is a boys' playhouse with no girls allowed. Solitude is a relentless adventure. And the servant Friday is a slaveholder's pipe dream, a black man with [... more]
$13.16
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Jump and Other Stories
Good Old Gordimer: Nadine Gordimer's writing in Jump was amazing. As an English Major, I can honestly say that this book was one of the few that actually had me anxious to turn the page. The way that Gordimer leaves the endings wide open for [... more]
$14.45
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Deadly Truth: A Novel Based Upon Actual Events in South ...
Thrilling, Suspenseful Novel: I probably would never have found this book had Amazon.com not recommended it - and I would have missed a hidden treasure. "Deadly Truth" is a gripping, "can't put it down," novel based in apartheid-era [... more]
$17.10
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Dangling Man (Penguin Classics)
Some of his best writing: This early novella actually contains some of Bellow's best writing. Set in 1942-43, it is the diary of a young man waiting to be drafted (Bellow himself was deferred so long that eventually he joined the Merchant Marine). [... more]
$14.00
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Remittance Man
A story, that although fiction, is sadly remnant of many South Africans' true stories: To not be accepted by one's own family - because you are of a darker complexion than they are - a truly terrifying thought for most Americans, but for South Africans, [... more]
$24.95
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Unconfessed
Freedom At Any Cost: "No mother wants to know that her generations are condemned to the life she despises."" - Sila from Unconfessed Unconfessed is the story of Sila, a slave who is sentenced to fourteen years of hard labor at South Africa' [... more]
$23.95
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The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories ...
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.0108968 EAN: 9780435906726 ISBN: 0435906720 Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: 1994-05 [... more]
$13.95
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
informative: I enjoyed the book. It was beautifully written and well understood. It really touched emotionally. It showed many angles and points of view. Historical perspective on how South Africa got to be the way it is: Very logically, it was a trip [... more]
$15.00
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