This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.
Sindiwe Magona is the author of Forced to Grow and Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night. She works at the United Nations and lives in New York.
"This is no ordinary autobiography. It is a pulsating, intimate adventure into the life of a South African woman who endured life under apartheid."
-- Response
"Not only is Magona's story worth telling, but her use of language is so masterly that it becomes a delight in itself...[A] highly readable book. Incidents are always recounted with humour and wit and her and her descriptions of people she meets is nothing short of inspired."
-- Literary Review
"Her vivid descriptions of Xhosa customs unfold not as an anthropologist's field study but as a memory etched from experience."
To My Children's Children
This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.
