Dark white light black
By: Malvory Adams
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Naledi
Published: 2022
Place of publication: [South Africa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781928530947
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Journalists; Biography; Social conditions; Race relations
Work titles: Als is nie net swart en wit nie
Description: "Dark white light black probes some of the most pivotal issues facing South Africa today: race, 'othering', unremembering, identity, gangsterism, addiction, and the process of making meaning of a society that has become unhinged from its moorings. The writer walks with the reader through a lion-hearted personal lens and through the purgatory of his travelogue, which starts 15 years before his birth in the tiny Eastern Cape hamlet of Breidbach. He dramatically recounts how his German grandfather robbed him of his grandparents. Premised on that epoch-making deed, he takes the reader on a painful journey of uprooting, an agonising coming of age, and the intricacies of navigating ating cultural belongings and a bloodline concoction. Next, he plummets horrifyingly into a netherworld of alcoholism culminating in a spine-chilling desperate act. On this treacherous odyssey to restoration and redemption, the veils of darkness lift, and he now lives in a world that is not stark black and white but where the grey mitigates the storms."--
Notes: First published in Afrikaans as Als is nie net swart en wit nie.

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