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"In this memoir, Breyten Breytenbach journeys to the South Africa of his youth. He is captivated in turn by trace memories of the land that is no more and of the child he must have been. He looks at his homeland through the prism of memory to uncover a new landscape." "Along with his wife and daughter, we accompany him to an estate belonging to the daughter of Alex Boraine who, with Archbishop Tutu, chairs the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which excavates and shapes the memory where needed "to serve as backbone to the new history of the new nation." Breytenbach takes us to Barrydale to…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2000Harcourt · 9780156011532
- Paperback · English · 1998Human & Rousseau · 204 pages · 9780798138567
- Other · English · 1999Faber and Faber · 197 pages · 9780571200665
- Other · English · 1999Harcourt Brace · 197 pages · 9780151004584
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