Wojciech Jagielski

Burning the Grass (eBook, ePUB)

At the Heart of Change in South Africa, 1990-2011
Übersetzer: Lloyd-Jones, Antonia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the great modern narrative nonfiction tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski, Burning the Grass is a literary masterpiece of true crime based on the April 2010 murder of Eugène Terre'Blanche, firebrand leader of the far-right AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging--the Afrikaner Resistance Movement), who espoused white Afrikaner rule even as it was ending in South Africa. It tells a universal story of small-town life where every face is familiar and people's immediate experience is hardly touched by national trends or ideologies. Jagielski intrudes on the intimate lives of the inhabitants to give us writing that jumps off the page for its immediacy, scope, and ambition. Never before has there been a book about South Africa like this. A white Afrikaner runs the Blue Crane Tavern on the outskirts of Ventersdorp that caters to blacks, a failing enterprise that he clings to obstinately. A black African is a local politician from the township of Tshing who commutes to the Town Hall in the white town as an advisor to the local government, but who is never asked for his advice. Everyone knows Eugène Terre'Blanche--for his cruelty to the workers on his farm as much as for his leadership of the AWB. The Boardman family--outcasts for being of British descent in an Afrikaner world--are at the center of Jagielski's story, a family that is ostracized almost equally by their black and white neighbors. Like Janet Malcolm in her true-crime narratives, or even Truman Capote in In Cold Blood, Jagielski uses death to enter into life, keeping our faces close enough to the pulse of it to let us smell the blood and know it as our own.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seven Stories Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609806484
• Artikelnr.: 43976299

Autorenporträt

Hailed by Kapuscinski himself as the Polish writer who best continued his work into the next generation, WOJCIECH JAGIELSKI was for many years a journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's leading independent daily and Kapuscinski's own paper, where he specialized in Africa, Central Asia, and the Trans-Caucasus and Caucasus regions. His two previous books published by Seven Stories are The Night Wanderers (2012) about the child soldiers of Uganda, and Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya, which the Economist called "compelling," and which in Poland won the Dariusz Fikus Award and the Letterature dal Fronte Award. ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES is a full-time translator of Polish literature and twice winner of the Found in Translation award. She has translated works by several of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and authors of reportage. She also translates crime fiction, poetry, essays, and books for children. She is a mentor for the BCLT's Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and Co-Chair of the UK Translators Association.