{"product_id":"my-traitors-heart-9780099583462","title":"My Traitors Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn ''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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRian Malan has written a tragic masterpiece and a classic of our time * Time Out *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Traitor's Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis a tremendous book about candour, honour and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it * Michael Herr *\u003cbr\u003eA tortured, mesmerising attempt to capture exactly the conflicts of [Malan’s] upbringing, conflicts that went to the soul of the emerging nation. * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThe remorseless exercise of a reporter's anguished conscience gives us a South Africa we thought we knew all about: but we knew nothing -- John Le Carre\u003cbr\u003eA great swirling devil of a book and it is equal in every way to its vast subject - the black and white country of the heart -- Don DeLillo","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732314173783,"sku":"9780099583462","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099583462.jpg?v=1719996376","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/my-traitors-heart-9780099583462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}