- Published: 1 July 2015
- ISBN: 9780099583462
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 544
- RRP: $32.99
My Traitor's Heart
Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself
- Published: 1 July 2015
- ISBN: 9780099583462
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 544
- RRP: $32.99
A tortured, mesmerising attempt to capture exactly the conflicts of [Malan’s] upbringing, conflicts that went to the soul of the emerging nation.
Guardian
The remorseless exercise of a reporter's anguished conscience gives us a South Africa we thought we knew all about: but we knew nothing
John Le Carre
A great swirling devil of a book and it is equal in every way to its vast subject - the black and white country of the heart
Don DeLillo
Rian Malan has written a tragic masterpiece and a classic of our time
Time Out
A magnificent book, an explosion of truth-telling
Times Literary Supplement
Unusual, vivid, raw and revealing
Donald Woods, Sunday Times
My Traitor's Heart is a tremendous book about candour, honour and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it
Michael Herr
Many books are called "searing". This one really is. Rian Malan, a journalist of solid Afrikaner stock, explores deeper into the darkness of late apartheid South Africa than any other writer
Economist