Every Secret Thing
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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-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. While recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family's persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents' relationship and her own turbulent childhood, leading her at one point to a chilling interview with one of the men responsible for her mother's death, Gillian Slovo has reated an astonishing portrait of a courageous, beautiful mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.
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Gillian Slovo is a novelist and playwright whose titles include Red Dust and the Orange Prize-shortlisted Ice Road.
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"An extraordinary expression of the very nature of loving, which illuminates, with the anger and tenderness of deep emotion, that human territory we all occupy, and where we conceal so much from ourselves." —Nadine Gordimer, winner, 1991 Nobel Prize in literature"While it contributes many new domestic and political details of the lives of her parents, Every Secret Thing is mostly about Gillian herself—and what it means to be the child of parents totally committed to a cause at whatever cost in danger, imprisonment, exile, and family disruption." —New York Times Book Review"Weaving the personal and political tightly together, novelist Slovo creates an incisive and unflinching portrait of her prominent South African family. . . . A memorable and emotionally compelling achievement." —Kirkus Reviews"Weaving the personal and political tightly together, novelist Slovo creates an incisive and unflinching portrait of her prominent South African family. . . . A memorable and emotionally compelling achievement." —Kirkus Reviews"Wonderfully moving . . . anger, frustration, and the hunger for sharing wash her pages, though they never swamp the admiration for her parents." —Guardian"Gillian Slovo has written a brave book, as unsparing of herself as it is of her parents . . . a moving testimony." —Independent
