The issue of apartheid pervades this vibrant collection of 27 South African short stories written between 1945 and 1992.

The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works : African Series)

Literature & Fiction

HIRSON, DENIS

Short Stories & Anthologies

Heinemann

Tells the story of a family of exiles from Czarist Russia who settle in South Africa and years later face another exile for working against apartheid

The House Next Door to Africa

Carcanet Press

1987 Carcanet hardcover, Denis Hiron. The story of a family of exiles from Czarist Russia who settle in South Africa and years later face another exile for working against apartheid

The house next door to Africa (Africasouth paperbacks)

Literary

David Philip, Publishers

Based on more than 20 years of living in South Africa, this book of reminiscences recalls the flavor and timbre that can only be associated with this unique country. With each line beginning with "I remember," this memoir recounts such memories as the taste of Marmite and syrup and the sounds of African music on LM radio. With a mix of personal and public memories, readers are taken on a journey that will be savored.

I Remember King Kong (The Boxer)

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

Jacana Media

A work of deeply sensitive memories and reflections, this autobiography―a political history of the time―chronicles the turbulent life of a South African man. Including details of the author's childhood years, experiences while in the army, the loss of his father, and the memory of a nation, this book's delicate and finely tuned phrases appeal to the reader as the narrative twists and turns through time.

We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Gardening in the Dark

A "beautifully written, funny and deeply moving" memoir about a son's reckoning with his father's political idealism, set against the menacing backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa (Finuala Dowling, author of The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers) A bestselling South African writer known for tackling history and memory finally makes his American debut Witty and deeply poignant, My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a breathtaking account of one man being confronted by his past and, ultimately, how his daughter proved to be the key in understanding his own father. Recreating 1960s Johannesburg through his adolescent eyes, bestselling South African author Denis Hirson gradually reveals the details of his extraordinary 13th birthday as he explores the familial and political divisions in Apartheid South Africa that weighed on him and his developing consciousness of his Jewish heritage. My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a gem of a book about becoming a man. It's also a valuable account of a forgotten time of white, Jewish activists, their families, their community, and most importantly, their children, who had to stumble through life in the aftermath of their commitment to racial justice.

My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah: A Memoir

Community & Culture

Pushkin Press

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