The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter - Softcover

Sachs, Albie

 
9780520220195: The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520220196 ISBN 13: 9780520220195
Verlag: NAFSA ¿ Association of International Educators, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa's security forces. His right arm was blown off and he lost the sight of one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery records the gradual recuperation of his broken body, his complex interaction with health professionals, the importance of touch and sensuality, and his triumphant reentry into the world. It also captures the spirit of a remarkable man: his enormous optimism, his commitment to social justice, and his joyous wonder at the life that surrounds him. In a new epilogue, Sachs gives a gripping insider's view of the major public events of the last decade--the election of Nelson Mandela, the formation of the Constitutional Court and Sachs's appointment as judge, and his own role with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Albie Sachs is Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He is the author ofJustice in South Africa (1974), The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1976), andSexism and the Law (1979). Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books includeDeath Without Weeping (California, 1992) and Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics (California, 1979).

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"I've never read anything quite like this bookwild, loving, sad, with humor striking deep as emotion."Nadine Gordimer

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Verlag
NAFSA ¿ Association of International Educators
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520220196
ISBN 13 
9780520220195
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
274
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