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The Unspeakable by Peter Anderson (Paperback, 2014)

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It is the mid-1980s, the era of so-called reformist apartheid, and South Africa is in flames. Police and military are gunning down children at the forefront of the liberation struggle. Far from such action, it seems, a small party of four is traveling by minibus to the north of the country, close to the border with Zimbabwe. Their aim is to shoot a documentary on the discovery of a prehistoric skull that Professor Digby Bamford boasts is evidence that, True man first arose in southern Africa. Boozy, self-absorbed Professor Bamford is unaware that his young lover, Vicky, brings with her some complications. Rian, the videographer, was once in love with her, and his passion has been reignited. Bucs, a young man from the townships, is doing his best not to be involved in the increasingly deadly tensions. Powerful and provocative, brilliantly written, The Unspeakable is as unforgettable as it is unsettling. Told in the first person by Rian, it centers on the conflicted being of the white male under apartheid. Unlike many of the great novels of the era, it renounces any claim to the relative safety zone of moralistic dissociation from the racist crime against humanity, and cuts instead to the quick of complicity. It is sometimes said of Albert Camus's The Stranger that everything would have turned out very differently, had the murder only taken place a few hundred miles to the south. This is that South with a vengeance.

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Publisher
C&R Press
ISBN-13
9781936196388
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209169241

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Unspeakable
Author
Peter Anderson
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Books
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
367g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Peter Anderson

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