description: This is not a modern reprint, print-on-demand or facsimile copy. It is a hardcover book published with a dust jacket price of $18.95 (12.95 pounds in UK) by Readers International, 8 Strathray Gardens, London NW3 4NY. Printed and bound in Malta by Interprint Ltd. The oppressive nature of life under South Africa's state of emergency is revealed in a novel relating the conflict between a father and his politically-involved son, who is determined to overthrow the apartheid system at any cost. the author, Richard Moore Rive (1931 –1989) was a South African writer and academic, who was from Cape Town. Two weeks after completion of this book, he was stabbed to death at his home in Cape Town in 1989, when he was aged 58.
language: English
title: Emergency
titlecomplete: Emergency
genres: South Africa, Africa, Fiction
ratings_count: 56
publisher: New Africa Books