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Permanent link: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/94461
- Title
- The wild almond line
- Author(s)
-
Schwartz, Larry
- Abstract
- An autobiographical account of apartheid-era South Africa from the perspective of a young man of East European Jewish descent. A reluctant conscript, Larry Schwartz had intended to flee, instead he found himself on a troop train headed for a camp outside Pretoria to serve in the apartheid army. "The Wild Almond Line" alternates between military misadventure and a generational saga in which Larry traces his family through migration from Eastern Europe at the turn of the century, through to its experience of a divided country. The book explores the relationship between Jew and Afrikaner, apartheid, Holocaust, memory, dispossession and personal and community responsibility.
- Publication Type
- Book
- Publication Year
- 2000
- FOR Code(s)
-
190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
- Keyword(s)
-
20th century history;
Apartheid;
Autobiography;
Dispossession;
Holocaust;
Memory;
South Africa
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Publisher URL
- http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781864487633
- Copyright
- Copyright © Larry Schwartz 2000. All rights reserved.
- ISBN
- 9781864487633
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