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A REMARKABLE COMRADE - Couverture souple

Egert, Simon

 
9781434320483: A REMARKABLE COMRADE
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1434320480 ISBN 13 : 9781434320483
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

"Arrested by the South African Security Police and questioned continuously for days on end, it was clear that the interrogators knew a great deal about me - details of my family, my friends and my habits, but what they did not know was that I was an insomniac - for five days and nights I stayed awake. Detained finally under the notorious 180 days act, I remained in solitary confinement for six months, all alone in a tiny cell except for the cockroaches and the weeds that grew between the cracks." This book recounts the captivating and varied journey of the author through the first 85 years of his life. It gives, amongst other things, a vivid, first hand account of his life fighting against the Apartheid regime in South Africa and touching on the minutiae of daily life as a detainee, from raising weeds and counting ants in a one-man cell through to the fear and tension in the hot summer heat of the interrogation room. We see the progression of the author's life through both political and personal upheavals, with an emphasis on the importance of the immediate family in the life of a young boy torn away from everything he knew in pre-war Poland, to tragedy in the loss of everyone he loved through the holocaust, through political wranglings in South Africa to an enforced second emigration and eventually life working and raising a son in London. Finally, an emotional return to South Africa and a very special meeting with Nelson Mandela. Despite being mugged and beaten by those he had fought for, the author remains optimistic for the future.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

"Arrested by the South African Security Police and questioned continuously for days on end, it was clear that the interrogators knew a great deal about me - details of my family, my friends and my habits, but what they did not know was that I was an insomniac - for five days and nights I stayed awake. Detained finally under the notorious 180 days act, I remained in solitary confinement for six months, all alone in a tiny cell except for the cockroaches and the weeds that grew between the cracks." This book recounts the captivating and varied journey of the author through the first 85 years of his life. It gives, amongst other things, a vivid, first hand account of his life fighting against the Apartheid regime in South Africa and touching on the minutiae of daily life as a detainee, from raising weeds and counting ants in a one-man cell through to the fear and tension in the hot summer heat of the interrogation room. We see the progression of the author's life through both political and personal upheavals, with an emphasis on the importance of the immediate family in the life of a young boy torn away from everything he knew in pre-war Poland, to tragedy in the loss of everyone he loved through the holocaust, through political wranglings in South Africa to an enforced second emigration and eventually life working and raising a son in London. Finally, an emotional return to South Africa and a very special meeting with Nelson Mandela. Despite being mugged and beaten by those he had fought for, the author remains optimistic for the future.

Biographie de l'auteur

Simon Egert was born in 1922 in what was once Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, a state in the Austrian Hungarian Empire. After the First World War and the bloody civil war that followed, Lemberg became Lwow, part of Poland, then the USSR and now the Ukraine. It was amidst this post-war chaos and economic collapse that Simon's family - part of an oppressed minority group - arranged to emigrate to South Africa. His father and eldest brother Leon left in 1929, followed two years later in 1931 by Simon, just nine years old, his mother and brother Roman. In South Africa, the author grew up during the world economic depression, attended segregated schools for whites only and witnessed the birth of Apartheid with the Nationalist Party victory in 1948. Becoming more and more concerned with the plight of the oppressed black majority, Simon was eventually detained in 1965, and interrogated and imprisoned under the notorious "180 days act." On release, he was placed under house arrest, culminating in a forced second emigration to the UK, returning to South Africa only after the release of Nelson Mandela where he helped the ANC in their groundbreaking victory in 1994. Simon now divides his time between friends and family in London and Cape Town.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1434320480
ISBN 13 
9781434320483
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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