My Traitor's Heart

In 1970s South Africa, Rian Malan — descendant of the architects of apartheid, a middle-class white boy and friend to Black people — went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg paper. There he encountered firsthand the horrors wrought by apartheid: the poverty, injustice, and violence. After an eight-year exile, he returned to write this book. With gripping stories and mesmerising prose, Malan attempts to understand his country, its racial hatred, and his own tortured conscience.