Every Secret Thing
My Family, My Country
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A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family's persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents' relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a courageous, beautiful mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.
- Published: Aug 06 2009
- Pages: 384
- 135 x 212mm
- ISBN: 9781844085996
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A luminous achievement
- GUARDIAN
Wonderfully moving ... anger, frustration, and the hunger for sharing wash her pages, though they never swamp the admiration for her parents
- Christopher Hope, INDEPENDENT
Gillian Slovo has written a brave book, as unsparing of herself as it is of her parents ... a moving testimony
- Nadine Gordimer
An extraordinary expression of the very nature of loving, which illuminates, with the anger and tenderness of deep emotion, that human territory we all occupy, and where we conceal so much from ourselves