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Mandela by Elleke Boehmer
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
This book explores Nelson Mandela's personal development as well as his public activism, from his childhood as a member of the Thembu royal house through his emergence in the 1950s as a nationalist celebrity, his martyrdom in prison and, finally, his contemporary canonization as a transnational icon of ...Show more
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories by Elleke Boehmer
Category: Short Stories | Series: One World
One World Two is even more ambitious than Volume One in its geographic scope, featuring 21 writers drawn from every continent. Most of the stories are unique to this volume, while others are appearing for the first time in English (as in the case of the contributions from Egypt's Mansoura Ez-Eldin and B ...Show more
The Shouting in the Dark - & Other Southern Writing by Elleke Boehmer
Category: Fiction
Late at night Ella watches her elderly father on the veranda, raging at the South African night sky. Caught between her mother's longing for her lost Dutch home, and her father's shattering wartime experiences in the Indian Ocean, Ella fights hard to understand where she fits into their lives and how to ...Show more
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