My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, & His Conscience

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Vintage International, 1990 - 425 pages
Critically acclaimed throughout America, My Traitor's Heart is an astonishing work of reportage, at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound--a book unlike any other about South Africa. Rian Malan, former crime reporter, searches for the truth behind apartheid, and finds it not in the way blacks and whites live, but in the way they die at one another's hands.

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About the author (1990)

Rian Malan is a journalist, screenwriter and award-winning writer who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the age of eighteen he became a crime reporter and was later exiled from his country for drug use. Malan wrote Traitor with a Wandering Heart, which describes the racism, politics and violence of his country. He has also appeared in Great Railway Journeys: Capetown to the Lost City, a travel video about South Africa. Malan is currently writing screenplays and magazine articles and is working on another book.

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