Fallen walls
Subtitle: prisoners of conscience in South Africa and Czechoslovakia
By: [compiled by] Jan K. Coetzee, Lynda Gilfillan, and Otaker Hulec ; with a foreword by Václav Havel.
Contributors: Coetzee, Jan Karel.; Gilfillan, Lynda, 1948-; Hulec, Otakar.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Political prisoners -- South Africa -- Robben Island; Political prisoners -- Czechoslovakia; Prisoners' writings, South African (English); Prisoners' writings, Czech
Description: "This collection of prison writings straddles two continents, and compares and contrasts the political struggles that gave birth to two vibrant new democracies of the twenty-first century: South Africa and the Czech Republic. The triumph over decades of suffering endured by the ordinary citizens of these two countries is symbolized by their leaders, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: [Czechoslovakia] : Nakladatelství Lidové Noviny ; [Cape Town, South Africa] : Robben Island Museum, 2002, in series: Robben Island memory series.