Evidence of Love - Couverture souple

Jacobson, Dan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749001909 ISBN 13 : 9780749001902

Editeur : Allison & Busby, 1992

Synopsis

Kenneth, Cape Coloured but able to pass as white, comes to England to become a barrister, financed by Miss Bentwisch, a wealthy South African who sees potential in the gardener's son. In London he meets Isabel, another of her South African proteges, except that Isobel is white and rich.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Dan Jacobson was born in South Africa to Lithuanian Jewish parents. He worked as a schoolteacher in London, as a journalist in South Africa, and also spent some time on a kibbutz in Israel. He moved to England in 1955 where for many years he pursued a career as a freelance writer of fiction and essays. He then entered academic life and eventually became professor of English Literature at University College, London. He also held visiting professorships and fellowships at universities in the United States and Australia. Upon retiring from University College he resumed working as a full-time writer. His writing is strikingly varied in nature and set in many countries Ð amongst them being South Africa, England, ancient Palestine, and the Republic of Sarmeda - a country of his own invention. His later works, such as 'The Rape of Tamar', take biblical and historical themes. Dan Jacobson's novels, many short stories, essays, and critical and autobiographical works have been awarded several prestigious literary prizes.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Kenneth Makeer – intelligent, South African and black – travels to London to study law where he meets a fellow South African – a white girl – whom he eventually marries. Yet mixed marriages are outlawed in the Union, and so when they return home they come face to face with racial intolerance and hatred at its most brutal. This is a passionate, harrowing and dramatic story which hurtles towards its ugly and untimely conclusion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allison & Busby
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0749001909
• ISBN 13: 9780749001902
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible