Dimitri Tsafendas embodied the tragedy of apartheid. The bastard son of a Greek father and an African mother, he killed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid and his misery. Van Woerden recreates the assassin's cursed life and the society that created him in a country itself gone mad.
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Dimitri Tsafendas embodied the tragedy of apartheid. The bastard son of a Greek father and an African mother, he killed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid and his misery. Van Woerden recreates the assassin's cursed life and the society that created him in a country itself gone mad.
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New York. 1969. Metropolitan Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Reaminder Mark On Bottom Edge. 0805066314. 177 pages. hardcover. keywords: History South African Apartheid. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The untold and heartbreaking account of the man who killed South Africa's architect of apartheid, one of the most dramatic political assassinations in modern history. If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri Tsafas would be that man. At a time when color was all, Tsafas, bastard son of a Greek father and an African mother, was untouchable--too black for the whites and too white for the blacks. Stateless, homeless, and loveless, on September 6, 1966, he entered South Africa's Parliament and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd four times with a long knife, killing the architect of apartheid, the architect of Tsafas's misery. Now, in a masterful restoration, Henk Van Woerden re-creates the assassin's cursed life and the impossibly torn society that created him. Unwanted by black or white family, denied the right to settle wherever he turns, Tsafas drifts from sea to prison, from kitchen hand to street vor, from Mozambique to Greece and Canada, and back to South Africa. With sensitivity and passion, Van Woerden traces the inexorable road that leads to Verwoerd's death, and reveals that the assassination--a resounding blow in the war against apartheid--was not the random act of a crazed individual, but perhaps the only choice left in a country itself gone mad. Powerful, tragic, and compelling, The Assassin is both a devastating indictment of oppression and a cautionary tale of the explosive power of racial hatred everywhere. inventory #2284.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has 177 pages. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. The heartbreaking account of one of the most sensational political assassinations in recent history. Dimitri Tsafendas entered South Africa's parliament and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd four times with a long knife, killing the architect of apartheid, the architect of his misery.
