Return To Paradise (Harvest Book) by Breyten Breytenbach - 1994-09-28

Mariner Books, September 1994. Trade Paperback . Used Good. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

Harvest / Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993. 234pp. Softback, VG, The author's memoir of being arrested and tried for terrorism and serving seven years in a South African prison, the third part of the acclaimed personal chronicle of South Africa, . Soft Cover. Very Good.

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New. In 1975, Breyten Breytenbach, a young Afrikaner poet, painter, and ANC activist in exile, made a secret visit to his native South Africa. He was arrested, charged with treason, and imprisoned for seven years. Much has changed since those days: Nelson Mandela has been released, apartheid is on its way out, F. W. de Klerk has set in motion multiracial rule, and Breytenbach, the young rebel, has become one of his country's most respected figures, an insider-outsider with a unique view of South Africa and Africa as a whole. In rich, vivid, evocative prose Breytenbach captures Africa: primitive huts alongside modern airports; the constant migrations of peoples; the ethereal beauty of the land. We travel with him from town to town, from Kwamandlangampisi and Houtenbeck to Goshen and Atlantis. We hear jazz in Capetown and hippopotami oomphing in pools, we see cardboard slums for blacks and exquisite white suburbs - cool houses with luxuriant gardens behind security walls topped with broken glass.… Read More

Mariner Books, 1994. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 234 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.75 inches.

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