Robert Dorsman Knihy

Since Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years, South Africa has experienced a profound transformation. The apartheid system was dismantled, ending laws that enforced racial segregation and reuniting a nation previously divided into prosperous areas for whites and desolate regions for blacks. The oppressive security forces that had tortured and harassed people of color were also disbanded. However, the challenge remained: how could this beautiful country confront its painful past and foster reconciliation among its divided people? To initiate healing, Mandela established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. This commission undertook the monumental task of hearing testimonies from both victims and perpetrators of apartheid, offering amnesty to those who confessed their crimes. Antjie Krog, a South African journalist and poet, chronicles this pivotal period, sharing gripping personal stories from victims and notable figures, including Winnie Mandela and former president P. W. Botha. Her narrative captures the complexity of the commission's work, revealing traumatic and vivid accounts that engage readers in a mosaic of insights. Krog's compelling prose offers a profound literary exploration of a nation striving for healing and transformation.

This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbours, National Party canvassers and Jehovah's Witnesses, defenceless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. TRIOMF relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavour to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances.

Je mu dvanáct, žije na tiráckém parkovišti a je... prostitutka. Říkají mu Cherry Vanilla, ale on sám si říká Sarah. Nedávno oslavil dvanácté narozeniny a nic si nepřeje víc, než koženou minisukni a jehlové podpatky. Kolegyně Pooh, se kterou se seznámí, ho představí svému pasákovi... Syrový, šokující příběh je současně plný něhy, je bizarní, poetický, mystický, přisprostlý, bolestný i směšný.

After his heart bypass operation, former champion athlete, Christian Lemmer, needs to take stock. When a Cape Flats gang begins to target him, this becomes vitally important. Christian commutes between Johannesburg and Stellenbosch, where he returns at weekends to his troubled wife Christine and his confrontational son Siebert. But he also has a hideaway that no one knows about, a flat in Sea Point where his drug dealer meets him, and a Swazi prostitute becomes his confidante. And in Matjiesfontein, the staff of the n Matjiesfontein the staff of the Lord Milner Hotel and the local pigeon breeders are in a state of excitement with the approach of the Southern Cross Derby - the most important event in the Karoo's pigeon racing calendar. But other things are afoot in Matjiesfontein as well, things in which the lives of the Lemmers are soon to become involved, from the arrival of the Piss-Man to the disappearance of prodigy Snaartjie Windvogel who, it is said, bewitches her father's pigeons with her violin playing. The Lemmers come to the village to try to unravel one mystery, only to find themselves caught up in another.