A memoir of Breytenbach’s seven years in South Africa’s prisons - two of them in solitary confinement - this book captures the full horror of life in one of the worst penal systems in the world.
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BREYTEN BREYTENBACH was born in Bonnievale, South Africa, and currently divides his time between France, Spain, Senegal, and New York City. He teaches in the Creative Writing Department at New York University.
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It's dark outside. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private clothes, court cells, section sergeant, security policemen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South African, Prison Department, Red Cross, Lucky the Pimp, Beverly Hills, Johan Kriegler, General Stores, Minister of Justice, Sea Point, Anna van Niekerk, Jiems Kont, Port Elizabeth, Nails van Byleveld, Prime Minister, Sitting Bull, Swart Piet Vangat, Big House, Brigadier Dupe, Don Espejuelo, Helen Suzman, Major Somename, Commissioner of Prisons, Hoang Lien, Jan Smuts Airport, Master Basie New!
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It's dark outside. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private clothes, court cells, section sergeant, security policemen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South African, Prison Department, Red Cross, Lucky the Pimp, Beverly Hills, Johan Kriegler, General Stores, Minister of Justice, Sea Point, Anna van Niekerk, Jiems Kont, Port Elizabeth, Nails van Byleveld, Prime Minister, Sitting Bull, Swart Piet Vangat, Big House, Brigadier Dupe, Don Espejuelo, Helen Suzman, Major Somename, Commissioner of Prisons, Hoang Lien, Jan Smuts Airport, Master Basie New!
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- Nelson Mandela (First Biographies) by Gini Holland on page 83, and page 240
- Season In Paradise (Harvest Book) by Breyten Breytenbach in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky on page 117
- Lady One: Of Love and Other Poems by Breyten Breytenbach on page 294
- The brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble classics) by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky on page 117
- a.k.a. Breyten Breytenbach: Critical Approaches to his Writings and Paintings (Cross Cultures 75) by Judith Lütge Coullie on 26 pages
- Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid (Philosophy and Postcoloniality) by Mark Sanders on 6 pages
- Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives by Jason Haslam on 6 pages
- Truth and Reconciliation: The Confessional Mode in South African Literature by Susan Vanzanten Gallagher on 5 pages
- Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship by J. M. Coetzee on 4 pages
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