Little, Brown and Company, 1997, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First

VI, 282 pages, acknowledgements. Black coloured endpapers. Black coloured boards with gray titles to the backstrip. Light browning to the text block edges. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the title page. Photographic dustwrapper, showing the author's parents (colourised in a sepia toned photograph), against a white background with brown and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. On the rear dustwrapper panel is a reproduction of a newspaper showing the author and her two sisters as young children. Rubbing and creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel. The autobiography the author who grew up in South Africa at the height of the apartheid system. Her parents were active against the regime -- her mother being a journalist and her father being a pivot of the South African Communist Party and the ANC military wing. It's a story of growing up where being a parent was secondary to political views and of fear. It is also the story of her parents relationship and its consequences and fallout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History -- South Africa; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0316639982. ISBN/EAN: 9780316639989. Inventory No: 0107951.