A native of nowhere
Subtitle: the life of Nat Nakasa
By: Ryan Brown
Publisher: Jacana
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Auckland Park, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781431405343
Subjects: Journalists; Biography; Apartheid; Blacks; Exiles; Politics and government
Description: "On a warm July morning in 1965, South African writer Nat Nakasa stood facing the window of a friend's seventh floor apartment in Central Park West. ...Less than a year earlier, Nakasa had taken an "exit permit"  from the apartheid government - a one-way ticket out of the country of his birth - and come to Harvard University on a journalism fellowship. Now he was caught in a precarious limbo, unable to return to South Africa  ... He was, he had written, a "native of nowhere... a stateless man [and] a permanent wanderer", and he was running out of hope. Standing in that New York City apartment building, he faced the alien city. Then he jumped. He was 28 years old." -- Publishers's website.