<p>A veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, Paul Sweetbread reflects on how his life was affected by turbulence and apartheid, from his mother's removal from a Chekhov play and his education in the government's version of history to his forced appearance before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.</p>

The Persistence of Memory

Literature & Fiction

Eprile, Tony

Literary

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

<p>"Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."―Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review</p> In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's "horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful" prose to be "comparable to his fellow authors of Apartheid Andre Brink and Nadine Gordimer." As the novel builds to a harrowing conclusion, the protagonist, a veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, is forced to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee with astonishing results. Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee calls The Persistence of Memory "a story of coming to maturity in South Africa in the bad old days. Always warm-hearted, sometimes comic, ultimately damning." Reading group guide included.

The Persistence of Memory: A Novel

W.W.Norton&Company

Temporary Sojourner: And Other South African Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fireside

Temporary Sojournre: And Other South African Stories

Simon&Schuster

A tapestry of suffering, joy, transcendence...a journey of guilt and hope...In these remarkable short stories by native South African Tony Eprile, men and women play out dramas that echo the tumultuous din of their homeland.  With a particular emphasis on exiles - whether expatriates or those people alienated in their own country - these stories examine a nation breaking apart along the fault lines of race, belief, and circumstance.  With this collection, Mr. Eprile emerges as a brilliant compassionate chronicler of one of the most troubled and troubling landscapes of our world.

Temporary Sojourner: South African Stories

Genre Fiction

PFP Publishing

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