My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams : a South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and HimselfVintage, 1991 - 425 pages In 1977 Rian Malan, descendant of Daniel François Malan, South Africa's first nationalist Prime Minister, and one of the master builders of apartheid, fled his homeland to live in America. Eight years later he returned from exile to face the paradox, his family history, his conscience, and to write this book. |
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