Return to ParadiseSouth Africa heads toward majority rule, yet Breytenbach is far from optimistic about its future. He sees a civil war raging and the land awash in blood. "[This] book...is fueled by the sort of rage that produces great literature" (Washington Post). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Awarded the Alan Paton Prize. |
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Page 151
... Mitterrand invited me to accompany her to the airport and we drove there with stabbing lights and whooping sirens . He stepped off the plane which the French had sent to London to fetch him and his entourage . Someone held an umbrella ...
... Mitterrand invited me to accompany her to the airport and we drove there with stabbing lights and whooping sirens . He stepped off the plane which the French had sent to London to fetch him and his entourage . Someone held an umbrella ...
Page 152
... Mitterrand asking : ' What ? What ? What are they saying ? ' to his helpless interpreter ) . For me Afrikaans is a creole language fashioned in the mouths of slaves , and not some bastardized derivative of Dutch . Wole Soyinka guffawed ...
... Mitterrand asking : ' What ? What ? What are they saying ? ' to his helpless interpreter ) . For me Afrikaans is a creole language fashioned in the mouths of slaves , and not some bastardized derivative of Dutch . Wole Soyinka guffawed ...
Page 153
... Mitterrand , maybe contrary to his own better intentions , must assume the role of the sphinx sitting in the gilded ... Mitterrand's office , did he lean rather heavily on my hand . Madiba , who actually only travels abroad to ask for ...
... Mitterrand , maybe contrary to his own better intentions , must assume the role of the sphinx sitting in the gilded ... Mitterrand's office , did he lean rather heavily on my hand . Madiba , who actually only travels abroad to ask for ...
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