"I've never read anything quite like this book: wild, loving, sad, with humor striking deep as emotion."Nadine Gordimer [An] extraordinary man, a living testimony to the belief that the human spirit can overcome all adversity. . . . That [Sachs] survived not just to exist but to make so fulsome a contribution to the life of a new, altogether better South Africa is a triumph.”Independent A highly personal and sensually explicit odyssey . . . , a book imbued with apparently undaunted idealism.”Times Educational Supplement