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Every Secret Thing :My Family, My Country

3.91 ( 278 Ratings by Goodreads)
Every Secret Thing

Every Secret Thing :My Family, My Country

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3.91 (278 Ratings by Goodreads)
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A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family's persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents' relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a courageous, beautiful mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781844085996
ISBN10 1844085996
Number Of Pages 384
Item Weight 270 g
Product Dimensions 212 x 135 x 25 mm
Publisher / Reseller Little, Brown Book Group
Format paperback
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A luminous achievement * OBSERVER *
Wonderfully moving ... anger, frustration, and the hunger for sharing wash her pages, though they never swamp the admiration for her parents * GUARDIAN *
Gillian Slovo has written a brave book, as unsparing of herself as it is of her parents ... a moving testimony * Christopher Hope, INDEPENDENT *
An extraordinary expression of the very nature of loving, which illuminates, with the anger and tenderness of deep emotion, that human territory we all occupy, and where we conceal so much from ourselves * Nadine Gordimer *

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Author's Bio

Gillian Slovo recently adapted TIES OF BLOOD, a fictional work about South Africa, into a six part series for the BBC. Since Nelson Mandela's release she has made frequent visits to South Africa (she wrote a piece for the THE GUARDIAN on the run up to the election).

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