Rian

Author: Rian Malan Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA (2009) ISBN-10: 1868423565 ISBN-13: 9781868423569 Condition: Very Good. The cover has some light scuffing along the edges and small creases across the corners. Else in very good condition. Binding: Softcover Pages: 336 Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm +++ by Rian Malan +++ For Rian Malan the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness beggars the imagination of those who live in saner places. Twenty years after the publication of his best seller My Traitor's Heart, there's still fire in his belly when it comes to the struggle against suffocating political rectitude. These twenty-seven pieces span the range of his magnificent obsession. Malan eviscerates politician, provokes rapid fury in Aids activists, pursues justice in the music industry, and exults in the company of an extraordinary cast of characters from truckers to tycoons.

Hardcover. English. Bodley Head. 1990. 349pp. In good condition with edgeworn dw. This is the most powerful book about the apartheid era by a white author. Daniel Malan, PM of South Africa 1948, who originated 'apartheid' legislation was Rian Malan's ancestor. After reconstructing his family's 300-year history of pioneering, conquest and exploitation, the book recounts Malan's own experiences, as a journalist, of white/black, black/black and white/white violence and atrocity with an accuracy that is almost too much to bear, precisely because the reader knows that none of it is imaginary. The author's final admission of his own culpability as a white Afrikaner is moving and real. Anyone who wishes to understand the sources of conflict in South Africa should read this book. (Kirkus UK)

The Controversial Memoir of Dan Dare A lovely find! In 1990, a strip entitled Dare, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Rian Hughes, was serialised in Revolver. It presented bleak and cynical characters and was a not-too-subtle satire of 1980s British politics. Spacefleet had been privatised, the Treens were subjected to racist abuse in urban ghettos, Digby was unemployed, Professor Peabody committed suicide, and Dare's mentor Sir Hubert Guest betrayed Dare to the Mekon and his quisling British Prime Minister, Gloria Monday (whose appearance and demeanour appear modelled on Margaret Thatcher). Ultimately, Dare destroys London, the Mekon and himself through a smuggled nuclear weapon. The last episode appeared in Crisis, following Revolver's cancellation. 1991 large format soft cover. Good condition with rubbing/light wear to covers. Registered postage is R40.00.

Paperback. English. Vintage. 1991. 349pp. In fair condition. This is the most powerful book about the apartheid era by a white author. Daniel Malan, PM of South Africa 1948, who originated 'apartheid' legislation was Rian Malan's ancestor. After reconstructing his family's 300-year history of pioneering, conquest and exploitation, the book recounts Malan's own experiences, as a journalist, of white/black, black/black and white/white violence and atrocity with an accuracy that is almost too much to bear, precisely because the reader knows that none of it is imaginary. The author's final admission of his own culpability as a white Afrikaner is moving and real. Anyone who wishes to understand the sources of conflict in South Africa should read this book. (Kirkus UK)

  *Signed* Rian Malan - My Traitors Heart The Bodley Head, 1990, Hardcover with Jacket, 349pp.   Condition: The Jacket has 3 small tears, a crease on the front cover, some very mild shelf wear, The book is in very good condition.                                                    Postage: R70.00 S.A.P.O. or R100.00 Postnet  

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 no date of print but inscription on the first page is dated 2007, softcover 113 pages, softcover has one or  two small marks, inscription on the first page,text is clean and the binding good -NO overseas shipping

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days This title comes with a new introduction by the author. In 70s South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand the horrors wrought by apartheid: the poverty, injustice and violence. After an eight-year exile, he returned to write this book. With gripping stories and in mesmerising prose, this is Malan's attempt to understand his country, its racial hatred, and his own tortured conscience. Features Summary In 70s South Africa, the author - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag... Author Rian Malan Publisher Vintage Classics Release date 20150429 Pages 519 ISBN 0-09-958346-1 ISBN 13 978-0-09-958346-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days In Sigh The Beloved Country, Bongani Madondo writes about people, issues, women who rock!!!, believers, fast boys and their faster toys, inner city and street life, and cultural criticism, amongst others. Nobody escapes his critical pen, from Kenny Kunene, Miriam Makeba to Oscar Pistorius. His 32 essays will make you laugh and cry as he captures the essence of every aspect of our country that makes it so weird and wonderful. Features Summary Sigh the Beloved Country is a saucy stew of literary performance that showcases essays, memoirs, the interview as an art form, profile as a form of theatrical set-piece... Author Bongani Madondo (Author), Rian Malan (Foreword by) Publisher Pan Macmillan Release date 20160428 Pages 502 ISBN 1-77010-495-X ISBN 13 978-1-77010-495-2

 Paperback in mint condition. As new! First Edition and First print 2007. 223 pages From Mandela to Theroux on the Mother City. It is a compilation of stories about Cape Town by some of South Africa's most prominent people, writers, poets and the like. Some of the contributors... just to whet your appetite: J M Coetzee, Nelson Mandela, Paul Theroux, Rian Malan, Jonny Steinberg, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Edwin Cameron, Breyten Breytenbach, Shaun Johnson... and more!!

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days The latest body of work from California-based Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe (born 1951), "The Day the Dam Collapses" consists (unusually for this artist) of digital pictures taken over the past five years (since his son was born). Ranging from seemingly ordinary details of quotidian life to poetic visual metaphors, the "The Day the Dam Collapses" paints the cycles of life as fleeting, fragile and devastatingly ephemeral. In his introduction to the book, Watanabe writes: "the truth is, we are all living like the characters in a disaster movie. We know we may someday face a disaster or a terrible event, but we keep living calmly as we do not know what and when that might occur. But a disaster will surely come to us. And the largest disaster must be our death that we all have to face sometime in the future." Despite these looming intimations of mortality, Watanabe persists in recording and sharing a life fully felt. Features Summary The latest body of work from California-based Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe (born 1951), "The Day the Dam Collapses" consists (unusually for this artist) of digital pictures taken over the past five years (since his son was born)... Author Hiroshi Watanabe (Photographer), Kristen Rian (Text writer) Publisher Daylight Release date 20140904 Pages 88 ISBN 0-9897981-1-9 ISBN 13 978-0-9897981-1-2