num_pages: 192
description: On September 6, 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas entered South Africa's parliament, gripping a wickedly long knife, and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd four times in the chest. This chilling study of the life of Tsafendas―the homeless, stateless, and loveless illegitimate son of a Greek father and a black African mother―gives us acrystalline vision of the tragic consequences of apartheid.
language: English
title: The Assassin: A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid
titlecomplete: The Assassin: A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid
genres: South Africa, Africa, History, Biography
ratings_count: 72
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: AKO / ECI Literatuurprijs, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Alan Paton Award
publisher: Picador