Every Secret Thing. My Family, My Country

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Little Brown And Co
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: First Edition

Description: 282 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Gillian, A Novelist Daughter Of Ruth First And Joe Slovo, Her Mother The Journalist And Polictical Activist Murdered In Mozambique In 1982, Her Father The Pivot Of The South African Communist Party And Of The ANC's Military Arm And A Personal Friend And Confidant Of Nelson Mandela.

Publishers Description: This autobiography provides an investigation into the past of Gillian Slovos family and country. Brought up in exile, Gillian Slovo retains the closest of ties with South Africa. After her father Joes death in 1995, she travelled back to South Africa to piece together her familys past. As the daughter of two of the most heroic anti-apartheid campaigners (her mother was Ruth First, heroine of the film "A World Apart") it is a story that intersects with much of South Africas bloodiest history, and tracking down the men who ordered her mothers killing is only one of the painful and intimate secrets that she had to face. Slovo and her family were intimate witnesses of the events in South Africa over the past 30 years and are close friends of Nelson Mandela.

ISBN: 9780316639989