num_pages: 282
description: A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family's persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents' relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a courageous mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.
language: English
title: Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country
titlecomplete: Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country
genres: Autobiography, History, South Africa, Biography Memoir, Biography, Africa, Memoir, Book Club, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 273
publisher: Little, Brown Book Group