BLOODSONG And Other Stories of South Africa.
by Havemann, Ernst
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a poor dust jacket (large piece has been torn from back cover - it is still present, but detached.)/poor
- ISBN 10
- 0395432960
- ISBN 13
- 9780395432969
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1987.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a poor dust jacket (large piece has been torn from back cover - it is still present, but detached.). First US printing. The author's first book, a collection of short stories which make the voices of the African laborers and the Afrikaaners come alive. From the dustjacket: "Violence comes in many forms, not all of them bloody. These extraordinarily moving stories from South Africa report not on the violence of the evening news but on the quiet anguish and brutality suffered by all the nation's inhabitants, both black and white.". 134 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61579
- Title
- BLOODSONG And Other Stories of South Africa.
- Author
- Havemann, Ernst
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a poor dust jacket (large piece has been torn from back cover - it is still present, but detached.)
- Jacket Condition
- poor
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395432960
- ISBN 13
- 9780395432969
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1987.
- Keywords
- south africa,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African Literature;
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