Author: Chris Walto
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: bites, sound
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1770091912
ISBN-13: 9781770091917

In Zurich, 1916, war is raging across Europe and artists, revolutionaries, and many people of questionable character have fled to Switzerland. While carnage reigns across the border, aesthetic and political battles are being fought in the coffee houses and Dada cabarets, until a shocking series of murders leaves a trail of bloodless corpses.

Author: Don Pinnock
Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Keywords: rainmaker
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2010-08-20
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1770097805
ISBN-13: 9781770097803

Author: Liz McGregor
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: african, south, times, life, khabzela
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1770090800
ISBN-13: 9781770090804

The central question raised by this timely and compelling biography is why Fana Khaba, aka Khabzela, a popular South African DJ and youth icon who succumbed to AIDS, did not take anti-retroviral medication to save his own life. The answer reveals a lot about many South Africans’ understanding of AIDS as well as the mendacity of the government’s approach to the disease. More than just the retelling of a young celebrity’s life, this story explores several facets and conditions of modern South Africa and its culture, emphasizing the fragility of the frontier generation whose dev

Author: Geoff Wisner
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: spirit, africa, capture, books, leaves, basket
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1770092064
ISBN-13: 9781770092068

Capturing the spirit of of Africa—from the desert of Algeria to the savannahs of Kenya, and to the jungles of Equatorial Guinea—this quintessential reader’s guide includes reviews and excerpts from notable books from each of Africa’s 54 countries. This compilation explores many of the best-known works on Africa, such as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou (Ghana), The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin (Benin), Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee (South Africa), Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey (Rwanda), and Wh

Author: Ryland Fisher
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: race
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1770093737
ISBN-13: 9781770093737

This landmark study on race in South Africa pulls from extensive interviews with a wide range of subjects, from government officials such as South African education minister Naledi Pandor and the former South African ambassador Melanie Verwoerd to activists such as Rhoda Kadelie and Carel Boshoff. Addressing the subject head-on, this book reopens the debate at a time when issues of racial turmoil are making a slow, painful comeback. Put together, these original pieces explore the idea of race and its implications for the future of a nation living with highly charged racial passions.

Author: Kopano Matlwa
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: coconut
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1770093362
ISBN-13: 9781770093362

An important rumination on youth in modern-day South Africa, this haunting debut novel tells the story of two extraordinary young women who have grown up black in white suburbs and must now struggle to find their identities. The rich and pampered Ofilwe has taken her privileged lifestyle for granted, and must confront her swiftly dwindling sense of culture when her soulless world falls apart. Meanwhile, the hip and sassy Fiks is an ambitious go-getter desperate to leave her vicious past behind for the glossy sophistication of city life, but finds Johannesburg to be more complicated and unforgi

Author: Hamilton Wende
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: novel, shilling, king
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-09-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1770090533
ISBN-13: 9781770090538

In the East African frontier of 1916 and the World War I colonial wars between Germany and Britain, Lieutenant Michael Fuller, a South African fighting for the British, enlists only to find that the physical battles of war are not the only ones being fought—rampant racial prejudices are issues of contention. After suffering an embarrassing defeat, Lieutenant Fuller must join forces with two men from the King’s African Rifles to embark on a secret mission deep into enemy territory and the African bush. Faced with the compelling conflicts of war, characters make difficult choices between