โ Scribed by Rian Malan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An essay collection that offers โa fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africaโ from the bestselling author of My Traitorโs Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malanโs remarkable chronicle of South Africaโs halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, recorded by Pete Seeger and REM among many others, which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda. He follows the trial of Winnie Mandela; he writes about the last Afrikaner, an old Boer woman who settled on the slopes of Mount Meru; he plunges into President Mbekiโs AIDS policies of the 1990s; and finally he tells the story of the Alcock brothers (sons of Neil and Creina whose heartbreaking story was told in My Traitorโs Heart), two white South Africans raised among the Zulu and fluent in their language and customs. The twenty-one essays collected here, combined with Malanโs sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa; โa grimly realistic picture of a nation clinging desperately to hopeโ ..M.F
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