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The Interpreters: South Africa's New Nonfiction

by Sean Christie, Hedley Twidle, J.M. Coetzee, Jonny Steinberg, Antjie Krog, Rian Malan, Bongani Kona, Mark Gevisser, Zanele Mji, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Kimon de Greef, William Dicey, Rustum Kozain, Anton Kannemeyer ...

From the underworld of zama-zama goldminers to the tragicomic closure of a Cape Town Zoo, from stick fighting to punk rock, game lodges to fruit farms, cricket pitches to mermaids, The Interpreters: South Africa's New Nonfiction assembles a range of true stories that are often more far-fetched, and more compelling, than any fiction.Featuring J. M. Coetzee • Kimon de Greef • William Dicey • ... Read more

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From the underworld of zama-zama goldminers to the tragicomic closure of a Cape Town Zoo, from stick fighting to punk rock, game lodges to fruit farms, cricket pitches to mermaids, The Interpreters: South Africa's New Nonfiction assembles a range of true stories that are often more far-fetched, and more compelling, than any fiction.Featuring J. M. Coetzee • Kimon de Greef • William Dicey •
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Walking Girly in Nairobi

Safe House Short Story Singles

by Mark Gevisser ...

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of ... Read more

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Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of
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Thabo Mbeki

The Dream Deferred (Updated Edition)

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Hailed in the Times Literary Supplement as 'probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid', The Dream Deferred is back in print and updated with a brilliant new epilogue. The prosperous Mbeki clan lost everything to apartheid. Yet the family saw its favourite son, Thabo, rise to become president of South Africa in 1999. A decade later, Mbeki was ... Read more

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Hailed in the Times Literary Supplement as 'probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid', The Dream Deferred is back in print and updated with a brilliant new epilogue. The prosperous Mbeki clan lost everything to apartheid. Yet the family saw its favourite son, Thabo, rise to become president of South Africa in 1999. A decade later, Mbeki was
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A Legacy of Liberation

Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream

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A gripping social history of South Africa's past and future and beautifully narrated by one of Africa's most esteemed journalists, From Struggle to Liberation sheds light on the future of the nation under a new regime. With unprecedented access to Thabo Mbeki and the top brass in the African National Congress, Mark Gevisser weaves a nuanced portrait of the black experience under apartheid. ... Read more

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A gripping social history of South Africa's past and future and beautifully narrated by one of Africa's most esteemed journalists, From Struggle to Liberation sheds light on the future of the nation under a new regime. With unprecedented access to Thabo Mbeki and the top brass in the African National Congress, Mark Gevisser weaves a nuanced portrait of the black experience under apartheid.
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At Home and Away

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by Hawa Jande Golakai, Kofi Akpabli, Kevin Eze, Isaac Otidi Amuke, Mark Gevisser ...

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of ... Read more

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Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of
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Thabo Mbeki

The Dream Deferred

by Mark Gevisser ...

What happens to a dream deferred? This question, from one of Thabo Mbeki's favourite poems by Langston Hughes, provides the thread for this magisterial biography of the second president of a democratic South Africa. In the long shadow of Nelson Mandela, Mbeki attempted to forge an identity for himself as the symbol of modern Africa. Mark Gevisser brings to life the voices and places that made ... Read more

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What happens to a dream deferred? This question, from one of Thabo Mbeki's favourite poems by Langston Hughes, provides the thread for this magisterial biography of the second president of a democratic South Africa. In the long shadow of Nelson Mandela, Mbeki attempted to forge an identity for himself as the symbol of modern Africa. Mark Gevisser brings to life the voices and places that made
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The Pink Line

Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

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A groundbreaking examination of how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today.More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to describe—and divide—the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. A new Pink ... Read more

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A groundbreaking examination of how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today.More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to describe—and divide—the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. A new Pink
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Defiant Desire

Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa

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Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love ... Read more

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Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love
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Mbeki and After

Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki

by Richard Calland, Jane Duncan, Steven Friedman, Mark Gevisser ...

For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in ... Read more

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For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in
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Lost and Found in Johannesburg

A Memoir

by Mark Gevisser ...

An intimate map of the South African city during and after apartheid: "Illuminating, unsettling, engrossing, often funny, and, in a word, brilliant." —Claire Messud, New York Times–bestselling author of This Strange Eventful HistoryLost and Found in Johannesburg begins with a transgression—the armed invasion of a private home in the city of Mark Gevisser's birth. But far more than a harrowing ... Read more

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An intimate map of the South African city during and after apartheid: "Illuminating, unsettling, engrossing, often funny, and, in a word, brilliant." —Claire Messud, New York Times–bestselling author of This Strange Eventful HistoryLost and Found in Johannesburg begins with a transgression—the armed invasion of a private home in the city of Mark Gevisser's birth. But far more than a harrowing
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The Pink Line

Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

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One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the authorA groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world todayMore than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers is a globetrotting exploration of how th... ... Read more

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One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the authorA groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world todayMore than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers is a globetrotting exploration of how th...
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The Fragile Earth

Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change

by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...

Narrated by Kaleo Griffith, Gabra Zackman, Cat Gould ...

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A New York TimesNew & Noteworthy BookOne of the DailyBeast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the ElectionA collection of the New Yorker’sgroundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and moreJust one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and tes... ... Read more

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A New York TimesNew & Noteworthy BookOne of the DailyBeast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the ElectionA collection of the New Yorker’sgroundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and moreJust one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and tes...
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