Books by Rian Malan
My Traitor's Heart
by Rian Malan
You come away with this sense that something has been drawn absolutely out of the South African soul, the way you might read a Solzhenitsyn book to understand something about Russia.
My Traitor’s Heart
by Rian Malan
My Traitor’s Heart is perhaps the most important memoir that has ever been published by a white South African. Here is a man who stared into the irreconcilable inner turmoils that are implicit in the condition of African whiteness.
Interviews where books by Rian Malan were recommended
The best books on Holding Power to Account, recommended by Heather Brooke
Heather Brooke’s investigative journalism was the catalyst for the MPs expenses scandal of 2009. With an eye to how power corrupts, from Orwell’s Animal Farm to an apartheid memoir, she looks at importance of sticking to one’s principles and the dangers that arise when we don’t.
The best books on Post-Apartheid Identity, recommended by Kevin Bloom
The award-winning South African writer Kevin Bloom discusses five books that bring light to post-apartheid South Africa with focus on the predicament of the white South African. Do whites ‘deserve’ to feel at home in their country?
The best books on The Rwandan Genocide, recommended by Philip Gourevitch
Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, an account of the Rwandan genocide, explores five books on the events that left 800,000 dead in 100 days.
