num_pages: 308
description: History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made.
language: English
title: The Mirror At Midnight: A South African Journey
titlecomplete: The Mirror At Midnight: A South African Journey
characters: Thabo Mbeki, Desmond Tutu, Adam Hochschild, Nelson Mandela, Eugene Terre'Blanche, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, F.W. de Klerk
genres: History, Travel, South Africa, Africa, Reportage, Journalism, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 247
places: South Africa
publisher: Mariner Books