Mafeking Road by Bosman, Herman Charles

Mafeking Road (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780979333064)

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Format: Paperback
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Mafeking Road by Bosman, Herman Charles

Mafeking Road

$15.00
Mafeking Road by Bosman, Herman Charles

Mafeking Road

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit and clear- sighted judgment. Spun by the plainclothes local visionary and storyteller Oom Shalk Lourens, these moving and satirical glimpses of lethargic herdsmen, ambitious concertina players, legendary leopards and mambas, and love-struck dreamers lay bare immense emotions, contradictions, and mysteries within the smallest movements and unadorned talk of the Groot Marico District. Leading oral tradition by the hand into a territory all his own, Bosman maps a world at once lucid and layered, distant yet powerfully familiar.

Author: Herman Charles Bosman
ISBN-10: 0979333067
ISBN-13: 9780979333064
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2008
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 6.42h x 5.72w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/24/2008 pg. 51
By Herman Charles Bosman
By Herman Charles Bosman
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Herman Charles Bosman (1905-1951), a household name in South Africa, was born near Cape Town but lived most of his life in the Transvaal. He spent the first six months of 1926 as a teacher at a farm school in the Marico District of what was then the Western Transvaal. His term was cut short when, on a vacation back at his family home in Johannesburg, he shot and killed his step-brother. He spent four years on death row in Pretoria Central Prison before his sentence was commuted. Upon his release in 1930, he took up a career as a journalist and began his celebrated Oom Schalk stories, which culminated in the publication of Mafeking Road in 1947. His first novel, Jacaranda in the Night, appeared the same year while his prison memoir, Cold Stone Jug, was published two years later. Bosman died of heart failure in October 1951. He has come to be widely considered South Africa's greatest short story writer.

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