Every Secret Thing
my family, my country
$40.59
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2010
Summary
Every Secret Thing: A Memoir of Love, Resistance, and Family in Apartheid South Africa
A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life.
For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa’s pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment.
Whilst recalling the extraordinar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844085996 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844085996 |
| Author: | Gillian Slovo |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 212mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Wonderfully moving … anger, frustration, and the hunger for sharing wash her pages, though they never swamp the admiration for her parents– GUARDIAN
A luminous achievement - OBSERVER
Wonderfully moving … anger, frustration, and the hunger for sharing wash her pages, though they never swamp the admiration for her parents - GUARDIANGillian Slovo has written a brave book, as unsparing of herself as it is of her parents … a moving testimony - Christopher Hope, INDEPENDENTAn extraordinary expression of the very nature of loving, which illuminates, with the anger and tenderness of deep emotion, that human territory we all occupy, and where we conceal so much from ourselves - Nadine GordimerAbout The Author
Gillian Slovo
Gillian Slovo was born in South Africa and has written nine novels, one of which, Red Dust, has been filmed with Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Her first play, Guantanamo, played in London’s West End and off-Broadway in New York. ICE ROAD was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
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