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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780802119902
- Book Title
- Lion Sleeps Tonight
- Publisher
- GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Africa / South / General, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802119905
ISBN-13
9780802119902
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109289638
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lion Sleeps Tonight
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Africa / South / General, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-388007
Reviews
Praise for The Lion Sleeps Tonight : "Exhibiting the same fiercely lyrical voice that made My Traitor's Heart so compelling, the book is a beautiful, wry, often angry account of where South Africa has been and where it is going. . . . The dominant voice in a Malan story is his own wonder at the beauty, chaos and paradoxes of his continent. . . . Malan is one of the finest nonfiction writers alive, and American readers should treasure this chance to get to know him again."-- The Wall Street Journal "[ The Lion Sleeps Tonight ] reflects the chaos, hope, and amazing stories since the end of apartheid. . . . brilliant writing on everything from the origins of the 'Lion King' theme song to Mbeki's legacy--and how he blew it on AIDs. . . . Malan's new collection spans the years between 1994 and 2008, when South Africa oscillated between the extremes of "terror and ecstasy," sometimes in the same week, as it lurched into its brave new world. Malan's essays capture the transition in all its dysfunction and glory. . . . It's a dizzying ride, one on which Malan serves as an expert, if somewhat curmudgeonly, guide. . . . a devilishly talented writer and storyteller."-- The Daily Beast "Top-shelf writing . . . the pages of his book begin to seem like a path strewn with rose petals."-- Bookforum "Malan is a great storyteller and sometime polemicist . . . a consistently vivid, energetic writer. It's hard not to keep reading The Lion Sleeps Tonight once you've started, and even when you're done you're likely to page back through the book in case there's something you missed."-- The Mail and Guardian (South Africa) "The Lion Sleeps Tonight, quite simply, is outstandingly good."-- The Daily Maverick (South Africa) "Malan is, as I think most South Africans know, an absolutely remarkable writer--perhaps one of the best writers and commentators in the world."-- The Daily Dispatch (South Africa) Praise for My Traitor's Heart : "Here, as in nothing I've read before, is the demotic voice of black and Afrikaner South Africa. . . . Triumphant."-- Salman Rushdie "Here is truth-telling at its most exemplary and courageous. 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 Carré "This is 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 "A tremendous book about candor, honor, and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it."-- Michael Herr "Malan is bent on uncovering another level altogether of South African life, and he does so beautifully. . . . He sharply expands our understanding of his strange, strange country's complexities."-- The New York Times, [Malan is] a master storyteller, with a gift for conjuring a sense of place and an ear for engaging dialogue. . . . His best stories take you places you have never been and introduce you to characters who in lesser hands would be caricatures. . . . Malan captures the tension between hope and despair as few others have."— The New York Review of Books Exhibiting the same fiercely lyrical voice that made My Traitor's Heart so compelling, the book is a beautiful, wry, often angry account of where South Africa has been and where it is going. . . . The dominant voice in a Malan story is his own wonder at the beauty, chaos and paradoxes of his continent. . . . Malan is one of the finest nonfiction writers alive, and American readers should treasure this chance to get to know him again."— The Wall Street Journal [ The Lion Sleeps Tonight ] reflects the chaos, hope, and amazing stories since the end of apartheid. . . . brilliant writing on everything from the origins of the ‘Lion King' theme song to Mbeki's legacy—and how he blew it on AIDs. . . . Malan's new collection spans the years between 1994 and 2008, when South Africa oscillated between the extremes of terror and ecstasy," sometimes in the same week, as it lurched into its brave new world. Malan's essays capture the transition in all its dysfunction and glory. . . . It's a dizzying ride, one on which Malan serves as an expert, if somewhat curmudgeonly, guide. . . . a devilishly talented writer and storyteller."— The Daily Beast "Top-shelf writing . . . the pages of his book begin to seem like a path strewn with rose petals."— Bookforum Malan is a great storyteller and sometime polemicist . . . a consistently vivid, energetic writer. It's hard not to keep reading The Lion Sleeps Tonight once you've started, and even when you're done you're likely to page back through the book in case there's something you missed."— The Mail and Guardian (South Africa) The Lion Sleeps Tonight, quite simply, is outstandingly good."— The Daily Maverick (South Africa) Malan is, as I think most South Africans know, an absolutely remarkable writer—perhaps one of the best writers and commentators in the world."— The Daily Dispatch (South Africa) Cynical, lively and, above all, opinionated. . . . [The Lion Sleeps Tonight] provides a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa."— The Sunday Times (UK) [A] startling collection of essays. . . . South Africa should treasure Malan, but it won't. One suspects that he wouldn't have it any other way."— The Sunday Times (UK) [Malan] is not interested in generalizations, or political theories, or rosy speculation, or myths, or race theory, but in simple justice. . . . Malan is South Africa's Christopher Hitchens, similarly touched with genius."— The Daily Telegraph Malan's sardonic narration offers a succinct picture of South Africa today." — Irish Examiner A book ripe with horrors. But also—and you can feel the astonishment in his words when he says as much—strange new moments of hope. . . . Animated by anger and a savage irony, yet always controlled, clear and readable."— Sunday Herald (UK), "[Malan is] a master storyteller, with a gift for conjuring a sense of place and an ear for engaging dialogue. . . . His best stories take you places you have never been and introduce you to characters who in lesser hands would be caricatures. . . . Malan captures the tension between hope and despair as few others have."-- The New York Review of Books "Exhibiting the same fiercely lyrical voice that made My Traitor's Heart so compelling, the book is a beautiful, wry, often angry account of where South Africa has been and where it is going. . . . The dominant voice in a Malan story is his own wonder at the beauty, chaos and paradoxes of his continent. . . . Malan is one of the finest nonfiction writers alive, and American readers should treasure this chance to get to know him again."-- The Wall Street Journal "[ The Lion Sleeps Tonight ] reflects the chaos, hope, and amazing stories since the end of apartheid. . . . brilliant writing on everything from the origins of the 'Lion King' theme song to Mbeki's legacy--and how he blew it on AIDs. . . . Malan's new collection spans the years between 1994 and 2008, when South Africa oscillated between the extremes of "terror and ecstasy," sometimes in the same week, as it lurched into its brave new world. Malan's essays capture the transition in all its dysfunction and glory. . . . It's a dizzying ride, one on which Malan serves as an expert, if somewhat curmudgeonly, guide. . . . a devilishly talented writer and storyteller."-- The Daily Beast "Top-shelf writing . . . the pages of his book begin to seem like a path strewn with rose petals."-- Bookforum "Malan is a great storyteller and sometime polemicist . . . a consistently vivid, energetic writer. It's hard not to keep reading The Lion Sleeps Tonight once you've started, and even when you're done you're likely to page back through the book in case there's something you missed."-- The Mail and Guardian (South Africa) "The Lion Sleeps Tonight, quite simply, is outstandingly good."-- The Daily Maverick (South Africa) "Malan is, as I think most South Africans know, an absolutely remarkable writer--perhaps one of the best writers and commentators in the world."-- The Daily Dispatch (South Africa) "Cynical, lively and, above all, opinionated. . . . [The Lion Sleeps Tonight] provides a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa."-- The Sunday Times (UK) "[A] startling collection of essays. . . . South Africa should treasure Malan, but it won't. One suspects that he wouldn't have it any other way."-- The Sunday Times (UK) "[Malan] is not interested in generalizations, or political theories, or rosy speculation, or myths, or race theory, but in simple justice. . . . Malan is South Africa's Christopher Hitchens, similarly touched with genius."-- The Daily Telegraph "Malan's sardonic narration offers a succinct picture of South Africa today." -- Irish Examiner "A book ripe with horrors. But also--and you can feel the astonishment in his words when he says as much--strange new moments of hope. . . . Animated by anger and a savage irony, yet always controlled, clear and readable."-- Sunday Herald (UK)
Dewey Edition
23
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Dewey Decimal
968.06/5
Synopsis
Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan's classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor's Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski. The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan's remarkable chronicle of South Africa's halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. Some of the essays previously appeared in a collection published only in South Africa, Resident Alien , but others are collected here for the first time. The collection comprises twenty-three pieces; the title story investigates the provenance of the world famous song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda who recorded a song called "Mbube" in the 1930s, which went on to be covered by Pete Seeger, REM, and Phish, and was incorporated into the musical "The Lion King." In other stories, Malan follows the trial of Winnie Mandela and plunges into the explosive controversy over President Mbeki's AIDS policies of the 1990s. The stories, combined with Malan's sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa., Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan's classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor's Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski. The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan's remarkable chronicle of South Africa's halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. Some of the essays previously appeared in a collection published only in South Africa, Resident Alien , but others are collected here for the first time. The collection comprises twenty-three pieces; the title story investigates the provenance of the world famous song The Lion Sleeps Tonight," which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda who recorded a song called Mbube" in the 1930s, which went on to be covered by Pete Seeger, REM, and Phish, and was incorporated into the musical The Lion King." In other stories, Malan follows the trial of Winnie Mandela and plunges into the explosive controversy over President Mbeki's AIDS policies of the 1990s. The stories, combined with Malan's sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa.
LC Classification Number
DT1971.M34 2012
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- a***9 (75)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseFast shipper, item was well packed for shipping, item received was not in great condition. But seller quickly responded to the problem, and could not have been more helpful, I would gladly buy from this seller again.
- _***r (472)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExactly as described. Excellent packaging, which helped me to avoid the usual punctures and crushed corners during shipment. I greatly appreciated that!! ☺️⚡️fast shipping. Awesome prices. Thank you so much! I would recommend purchasing from this seller based off this experience.