The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey

Contributor(s): Hochschild, Adam (Author)

ISBN: 0618758259 EAN: 9780618758258

Publisher: Mariner Books (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 14.95 US

Binding: Paperback - Other Formats

Pub Date: April 01, 2007

Annotation: History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made.