ISBN: 9780316799232

Gillian Slovo grew up in a household fraught with secrets. The daughter of South African Communist Party head Joe Slovo and his wife, Ruth, Gillian was proud of her parents' clandestine s… Plus…

Gillian Slovo grew up in a household fraught with secrets. The daughter of South African Communist Party head Joe Slovo and his wife, Ruth, Gillian was proud of her parents' clandestine struggle against apartheid. Yet she always felt profoundly excluded from their world -- an alienation that deepened when she was sent to London to live with her grandmother at age eleven. Her father, like his friend Nelson Mandela, had been sentenced to prison; her mother, a university professor, had served 180 days in solitary and then fled to Mozambique -- where, eighteen years later, she would be assassinated by a letter bomb.When Nelson Mandela came to power, Gillian returned to South Africa to reclaim her father and her country -- and to find her mother's murderer. Her father, the only white minister in Mandela's government, warned her not to delve too deeply. But Gillian persisted. What she discovered -- about her mother's killer and about her parents' private lives -- shocked and angered her, but ultimately gave her the strength to make peace with the past.Written with sureness and grace, Every Secret Thing is a triumph -- a memoir that brings to life the human cost of apartheid through a narrative that's as emotionally affecting as This Boy's Life and The Liars' Club. Media > Book, [PU: Little, Brown]<

1997, ISBN: 9780316799232

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Boston - New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 282 pages. A phenomenal biograph… Plus…

Boston - New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 282 pages. A phenomenal biography of South African white anti-apartheid leaders; Ruth First and Joe Slovo, by their novelist daughter. "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 of ourselves." - Nadine Gordimer, from the blurb on the back cover. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.., Little, Brown and Company, 1997<

ISBN: 0316799238

[EAN: 9780316799232], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Little Brown & Co], Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that… Plus…

[EAN: 9780316799232], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Little Brown & Co], Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that’ll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.<

ISBN: 0316799238

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[SR: 8597818], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780316799232], Little Brown & Co, Little Brown & Co, Book, [PU: Little Brown & Co], 1997-05-01, Little Brown & Co, 758952, Africa, 758932, Countries & Regions, 268021, Historical, 67, Biography, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<