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ISBN: 9780810150683 - The Lava of This Land The Lava of This Land
Hirson, Denis

ISBN10: 0810150689  ISBN13: 9780810150683
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Format: Hardback

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ISBN: 9781431402472 - Worlds in One Country Worlds in One Country
Denis Hirson

ISBN10: 1431402478  ISBN13: 9781431402472
Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Sep 2011
Worlds in one country is a compact, inclusive history of writing in South Africa from the nineteenth century to 1994 that crosses boundaries of language and colour, including prose, poetry and theatre. Worlds in one country is a compact... More

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ISBN: 9781770098763 - The Dancing and the Death in Lemon Street The Dancing and the Death in Lemon Street
Denis Hirson

ISBN10: 1770098763  ISBN13: 9781770098763
Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Sep 2011
Violence rendered things visible, writes Denis Hirson in this beautifully crafted, musical story, which is as much about seeing how people lived at that time as it is about desire, loneliness and the desperate, blind need for revenge. More

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ISBN: 9780435906726 - The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories
Denis Hirson, Martin Trump

ISBN10: 0435906720  ISBN13: 9780435906726
Publisher: Pearson Education, Oxford Heinemann
Edition: Paperback original
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 May 1994
The issue of apartheid pervades this vibrant collection of 27 South African short stories written between 1945 and 1992. The issue of apartheid pervades this vibrant collection of 27 South African short stories written between 1945 and 1992. More

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ISBN: 9780856357206 - House Next Door to Africa House Next Door to Africa
Denis Hirson

ISBN10: 0856357200  ISBN13: 9780856357206
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jan 1987
Tells the story of a family of exiles from Czarist Russia who settle in South Africa and years later face another exile for working against apartheid. More

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ISBN: 9781770092563 - White Scars White Scars
Denis Hirson

ISBN10: 1770092560  ISBN13: 9781770092563
Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Jul 2006
White Scars also explores the moments at which Hirson read the four books. They include the arrest of his anti-apartheid activist father, Baruch Hirson in the early 1960's; his own move to Paris in the 1970's; his father's death, and the end of a... More

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ISBN: 9781770093843 - Gardening in the Dark Gardening in the Dark
Denis Hirson

ISBN10: 1770093842  ISBN13: 9781770093843
Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2008
Gardening in the dark begins by evoking a childhood in South Africa under apartheid; it ends with the author as a father evoking his own children and life in France. It is a title which shifts from mourning to love, from poems which are... More

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ISBN: 9780810150690 - The Lava of This Land The Lava of This Land
Denis Hirson

ISBN10: 0810150697  ISBN13: 9780810150690
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Dec 1997
Acknowledgements Introduction Song of the Broken String by Stephen Watson 3 Our Blood Makes Smoke by Stephen Watson 4 Rain in a Dead Man's Footsteps by Stephen Watson 5 The Rain that Is Male by Stephen Watson 6 The Sound of the Stars by... More

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ISBN: 9781770091443 - We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way
Denis Hirson

ISBN10: 1770091440  ISBN13: 9781770091443
Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Nov 2005
A work of deeply sensitive memories and reflections, this autobiography--a political history of the time--chronicles the turbulent life of a South African man. Including details of the author's childhood years, experiences while in the army... More

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ISBN: 9781770090323 - I Remember King Kong I Remember King Kong
Denis Hirson

ISBN10: 1770090320  ISBN13: 9781770090323
Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 May 2005
Based on more than 20 years of living in South Africa, this book of reminiscences recalls the flavor and timbre that can only be associated with this unique country. With each line beginning with ""I remember,"" this memoir recounts such memories... More