ignorance is bliss.
i've been wanting to blog about this book for weeks, but i thought i should finish it before advertising it. however, i can't wait that long. one, cause i'm reading a few other heavy books alongside this one, so reading is slow. and two, cause it's too good to refrain from promoting. go and read this book. i've not read so many books on south african history, and even less on history as a whole. it's never been my thing, really. actually, the history of my beloved rainbow nation of SA is what opened the tightly-shut door between me and any interest in reading nonfiction narratives about the past. i couldn't be bothered. but this country has changed that. and this book is a reason why. So deeply disturbed by the paradox that is South Africa, the author fled the country after a number of years as a police reporter during apartheid. Descendent of a notably racial Afrikaans lineage, Malan was a name all colors of South Africa associated with racist blood. Rian M...