EVERY SECRET THING/ MY FAMILY, MY COUNTRY

A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-aparth eid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. While recalling the extraordinary events whic h surrounded her family's persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents' relationship and her own turbulent chi ldhood, l...[Read more]