Breytenbach, Breyten

Memory of snow and of dust by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
16 editions published between 1989 and 1990 in 3 languages and held by 532 libraries worldwide
"Meheret is a part-time journalist of Ethiopian origin, Mano is a 'mixed blood' South African actor, and Barnum is an exiled white South African writer. When Mano goes to South Africa to research a film of Barnum's life, he gets caught up in the struggle for liberation, arrested for a murder he did not commit, and sentenced to death". -- Book jacket

Mouroir : mirrornotes of a novel by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
17 editions published between 1983 and 2011 in English and held by 482 libraries worldwide
Breyten Breytenbach composed this wondrous ship of thought, this docu-dream, during a horrific period of incarceration

Windcatcher : new and selected poems, 1964-2006 by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
3 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 403 libraries worldwide
Includes poems never before published

The memory of birds in times of revolution by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
13 editions published in 1996 in English and Dutch and held by 308 libraries worldwide
Essays en andere teksten over politiek, kunst en samenleving

The true confessions of an albino terrorist by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
13 editions published between 1983 and 1994 in English and Dutch and held by 243 libraries worldwide
Autobiografisch relaas over de politieke, sociale, filosofische en psychologische aspecten van de Zuidafrikaanse apartheid

Lady one : of love and other poems by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 208 libraries worldwide

And death white as words : an anthology of the poetry of Breyten Breytenbach : (a bilingual text with English translations [from the Afrikaans]) by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
11 editions published in 1978 in 4 languages and held by 155 libraries worldwide

Judas eye ; and, Self-portrait/deathwatch by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
6 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 154 libraries worldwide

All one horse : fictions and images by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
13 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in English and held by 152 libraries worldwide

Return to paradise by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
11 editions published between 1993 and 1995 in English and held by 145 libraries worldwide
In 1975, Breyten Breytenbach, a young Afrikaner poet, painter, and ANC activist in exile, made a secret visit to his native South Africa. He was arrested, charged with treason, and imprisoned for seven years. Much has changed since those days: Nelson Mandela has been released, apartheid is on its way out, F. W. de Klerk has set in motion multiracial rule, and Breytenbach, the young rebel, has become one of his country's most respected figures, an insider-outsider with a unique view of South Africa and Africa as a whole. In rich, vivid, evocative prose Breytenbach captures Africa: primitive huts alongside modern airports; the constant migrations of peoples; the ethereal beauty of the land. We travel with him from town to town, from Kwamandlangampisi and Houtenbeck to Goshen and Atlantis. We hear jazz in Capetown and hippopotami oomphing in pools, we see cardboard slums for blacks and exquisite white suburbs - cool houses with luxuriant gardens behind security walls topped with broken glass. We read of principals chased from classrooms by their students, and police confiscating cameras; we pass paw-paw trees, avocado orchards, and the blackened ruins of schools and huts; we learn ancient fables and folk superstitions, and always reflect on politics. This is a poet's experience of Africa, at once unsparing and elegiac