Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White - Softcover

Lelyveld, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140093265 ISBN 13: 9780140093261

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1986

Synopsis

Drawing on his tours in South Africa as a correspondent for the "New York Times," the author details the absurdities, rationalizations, inequities, and cruelties of apartheid, showing what it means to suffer and survive under the restrictions of racial separation

About this title

From Library Journal:

Readers of the New York Times know Lelyveld's excellent reporting from South Africa in the 1960s and 1980s. This book is a collection of his insights and experiences from those periods. Aimed at the general reader, it is a su perb introduction to South Africa today and is essential for community librar ies. It parallels James North's recent Freedom Rising ( LJ 5/1/85) but is gen erally better. Lelyveld's access to im portant people is broader, and his writ ing style is more colorful. On the neg ative side, Lelyveld's structure is un clear, and the excellent anecdotes can obscure the point of a chapter. There is no historical introduction but essential history is integrated throughout. While not really optimistic, Lelyveld leaves us with two stories that indicate some hope for a peaceful future. John Grot peter, Political Science Dept., St. Lou is Coll. of
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From Publishers Weekly:

Lelyveld, who was a New York Times correspondent in South Africa, examines that country's racial policies and their devastating effects in this Pulitzer Prizewinning account. He maintains that South Africans and foreigners who believe in the reform process display "substantial elements of duplicity,deceit, faulty assumptions and purposeful blindness." PW called this"a book of power and compassion."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140093265
• ISBN 13: 9780140093261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390