Z. P. Dala

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Alabama

A novel of forgiveness and reconciliation that shines light on the dark underbelly of South Africa’s fight for freedom and democracy. Estranged at the age of six from her mother, who sent her away from her hometown of Brighton in rural Zululand, brilliant architect Afroze Bhana has carved out an impressive life for herself in Cape Town. But when she receives word that her aging mother is desperately ill, she finds herself compelled to return to her place of birth to find answers about her painful childhood. Afroze arrives in Brighton to find that her mother, Sylvie—who was a doctor and a fierce activist during the dark days of the anti-apartheid struggle—is a shadow of her formidable self, but Sylvie has still retained her sarcasm and anger toward the daughter that she sent away. Somehow, Sylvie cannot draw her daughter close, even facing the looming threat of her own mortality. She remains in the cottage of Afroze’s childhood, frozen in a world where she surrounds herself with luxury and garish indulgences, cared for by the fiercely protective Halaima, a Malawian refugee. Especially painful for Afroze is the love and affection that Sylvie showers on Bibi, Halaima’s pampered and precocious daughter—love which she could never give her own daughter. A moving novel about the complexities of family ties, The Architecture of Loss beautifully explores the ways in which the anti-apartheid struggle—a struggle in which the roles of women have been largely overlooked—irrevocably damaged many of its unsung heroes.

The Architecture of Loss

455b01f3-b503-4bf7-81ca-bd57cae02f7d-1

Richard Mason

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Cape Town, 1914. Where a person can be whoever they want to be . . .

Former tutor Piet Barol and singer Stacey Meadows are making a splash in colonial Cape Town. Styling themselves as the Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Barol, they have been living by their wits - but as the world drifts towards war, their quest for comfort and riches has brought them close to bankruptcy. With creditors at their heels, their furniture business is imploding and only a major win will save them.

Stacey finds the ideal stooge: a mining magnate with a mansion to furnish. Piet enlists two Xhosa men to lead him into the magical forest of Gwadana, in search of a fabled tree. He needs precious wood, but he doesn't want to pay for it.

The Natives Land Act has just abolished property rights for the majority of black South Africans, and whole families have been ripped apart. As Piet's charm, charisma and appetite for risk lead him far beyond the safety of the privileged white world, he does not comprehend the enormous price of the lies he has told, nor where they will lead him . . .

Who Killed Piet Barol?

9e6f2d7f-c717-42d8-8342-1ac24214884c-1

#new #firstedition #fiction #hardcover #legend  #thelongsilenceofmariosalviati #deckled #southafrican 

Florida

First Edition Hardcover 

Ingi Friedlander, a curator from the National Gallery at Cape Town, South Africa, goes to the remote mountain village of Yearsonend to buy a sculpture that has magically appeared overnight. Ingi soon discovers that the town is in the grip of gold fever for a trove that is buried somewhere nearby. She is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the town’ s past and slowly befriends Mario Salviati, the deaf, dumb, blind Italian immigrant who holds the key to many of the town’ s secrets. Salviati confides in no one until the day of his death, when he leaves a stone with the map inscribed in it for Ingi. In a surprising twist, Ingi leaves both her job and the search for the treasure to pursue her true love, painting. As she leaves Yearsonend, she casts out the window the rock with the secret of the hidden gold. While her presence in the town has brought together people who have long fought over race and money, there is a complex combination of doubt about the people overcoming their differences and the history of apartheid, and an exhilarating sense of freedom and self-discovery which Ingi’ s persistent questions have brought to the townspeople.

The Long Silence of Mario Salviati

b847ca18-d3fe-4988-ab3e-6164aea34a30-1

Bill Keller

white label covering name on inside dust cover

Virginia

The Story of Nelson Mandela

The defendants had little hope of winning the case.... On the first day of the trial, Mandela startled the courtroom by arriving in the traditional leopard-skin cloak of Xhosa royalty to dramatize the fact that he was an African entering a white man's court.... "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination," he told the court. "I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and see realized. But if it need be, my lord, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." They were found guilty, as they knew they would be.... Mandela was forty-four years old when he entered prison. He would be seventy-one when he was released. Book jacket.

Tree Shaker

2e6edfe4-fc9d-4bb0-8348-2ad238726a1f-0

Mark Mathabane

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

A Black writer describes his childhood in South Africa under apartheid and recounts how Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith helped him leave for America on a tennis scholarship

Kaffir Boy

8514af70-2fed-4fd6-8dd5-e232f7454fb4

#paperback #blackhistory #southafrican #history #africanamerican

New York

A Personal Portrait

Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders. As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela during the post-apartheid years when Mandela faced his most daunting obstacles and achieved his greatest triumphs. Carlin witnessed history as Mandela was released from prison after twenty-seven years and ultimately ascended to the presidency of his strife-torn country. Drawing on exclusive conversations with Mandela and countless interviews with people who were close to him, Carlin has crafted an account of a man who was neither saint nor superman. Mandela's seismic political victories were won at the cost of much personal unhappiness and disappointment. Knowing Mandela offers an intimate understanding of one of the most towering and remarkable figures of our age.

Knowing Mandela

c93bdd9d-3f8c-441f-990e-cef325474d42-1

Etienne Van Heerden

Catherine Knox

Small creases on cover corners. See photos for details.

A Novel

A. J. Hartley

South Carolina

A teenage woman steeplejack is asked to investigate the murder of her apprentice amongst a community of varied cultures and political stances.

Steeplejack

1eab2016-3773-4390-ab5a-66435621110c-1

Audiobook with 7 discs, only ever played once in the car. So funny, so smart! #humor #DailyShow #intellectual #cerebral #SouthAfrican #race #unabridged 




Iowa

Stories from a South African Childhood

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times - Newsday - Esquire - NPR - Booklist

Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man's relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother--his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother's unconventional, unconditional love.

Praise for Born a Crime

" A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, Trevor Noah's] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah's family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author's remarkable mother."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

" An] unforgettable memoir."--Parade

"What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her--and an enormous gift to the rest of us."--USA Today

" Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar."--People

Born a Crime

3967a9d3-37d1-46cc-b050-8b6a41b19d4c-1

The Dead Will Arise tells the story of Nongqawuse, the young Xhosa girl whose prophecy of the resurrection of the dead lured an entire people to death by starvation. The Great Cattle-Killing of 1856-57, which she initiated, is one of the most extraordinary and misunderstood events in South Africa's history

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

The Dead Will Arise

Sheila Roberts

Author signed with a kind inscription. Book is a thin 51 pages. Nice and tight! No writing, no highlighting.  Doesn’t appear to have been read. Sheila Roberts. A major South African poet, was an anti apartheid activist. 
C-1

Save this search

Z. P. Dala

The Architecture of Loss

Richard Mason

Who Killed Piet Barol?

Etienne Van Heerden; Catherine Knox (Translator)

The Long Silence of Mario Salviati

Bill Keller

Tree Shaker

Mark Mathabane

Kaffir Boy

John Carlin

Knowing Mandela

Etienne Van Heerden; Catherine Knox

The Long Silence of Mario Salviati

A. J. Hartley

Steeplejack

Trevor Noah (Read by)

Born a Crime

J.B. Peires

The Dead Will Arise

Sheila Roberts

Daughters and Other Dutiful Women

Browse by categories

Save this search

Z. P. Dala

The Architecture of Loss

Richard Mason

Who Killed Piet Barol?

Etienne Van Heerden; Catherine Knox (Translator)

The Long Silence of Mario Salviati

Bill Keller

Tree Shaker

Mark Mathabane

Kaffir Boy

John Carlin

Knowing Mandela

Etienne Van Heerden; Catherine Knox

The Long Silence of Mario Salviati

A. J. Hartley

Steeplejack

Trevor Noah (Read by)

Born a Crime

J.B. Peires

The Dead Will Arise

Sheila Roberts

Daughters and Other Dutiful Women