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Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires. Sworn enemies, the two share a hedge and a deliberate hostility, which they maintain with a zeal that belies their age. But, one day,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement as experienced by Nelson Mandela's minister of transport, describing his work as a freedom fighter and his key role in negotiations that ultimately led to South Africa's freedom in 1994.
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town after working to promote democracy and women's rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa's most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of a young American anti-apartheid activist and Fulbright scholar who was murdered by black residents of Cape Town, who ultimately were granted amnesty and worked with the woman's parents to create an educational foundation for justice.
The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa: The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, 1993, during the final, fiery days of apartheid...
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