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Good. Size: 0x0x0; Reprint, 1984. Publication of 349 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. The top edge of the pages are slightly wavy. There is light foxing on the top edge of the block. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. 351 pages First American edition, first printing. Signed by Mphahlele in 1971 on the first title page. Dust jacket art by digeorge. His second novel and fifth book. The story of the outcasts on their own continent, Africans both black and white, in search of a home they cannot find. Near fine book with the top edge slightly dirty in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
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Near Fine. No Jacket. Long galley sheets for this autobiographical novel by the exiled South African writer. It follows his book Down Second Avenue and recounts his exile in Nigeria and Kenya, prior to his move to the U.S. This title was banned in South Africa. 100 long galley sheets (approximately 24" x 8"); folded in half. Tears to the cover sheet, else near fine. A very scarce prepublication format: probably no more than a half dozen copies of these galleys were created.
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New York. 1971. Macmillan. 1st Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 351 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by digeorge. keywords: Literature South Africa. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Wanderers is a complex, brilliant, and unprecedented novel; the most ambitious and panoramic work yet to come out of modern Africa. Exposing, for the first time, the South African in exile, it extends beyond the confines of one nation to explore the problems of Pan Africanism and the reasons for the wars that shattered Nigeria and continue to plague the entire continent. ‘How can I make my children understand we have all wandered away from something-all of us blacks; that we are not in close contact with the spirit of Nature, although we may be with its forces, that growing up for us is no more the integrated process it was for our forbears, but that this is also a universal problem? ' A stranger in his hostile homeland of South Africa, an exile in ravaged Nigeria and black colonial Kenya, Timi Tabane is one of The Wanderers, a group of intellectuals and political activists-both black and white-stripped of home, country, and hope. A teacher-journalist who dared investigate and print the truth about kidnapping and murder South African slave farm, Tabane is condemned to run for his life-forever. And so the odyssey of Tabane his family begins; a harrowing trek along the west coast of Africa in search of refuge. Teaching in high schools and universities; watching, listening, and understanding that there is no asylum for the black exile-not even in ‘black' Africa. And so they move again, to East Africa and the comic-opera rule of a black government dressed in British colonial convention and white imperialist money. Inevitably, the years of rootlessness and frustration take their toll: In nightmares of pursuit; in forcibly abandoned intimacies; and in the violent, tragic death of Timi's rebellious son who chooses to die for freedom rather than flee for life. The Wanderers are black and white, colorless in their exile and equal in their alienation. Political nomads, they move through a tragic ritual search for shelter, drifting from one turbulent country to another, victims-and perpetrators-of the violence that has enslaved them. EZEKIEL MPHAHLELE grew up in Praetoria, South Africa, and was educated at the University of South Africa. He lived in Nigeria for four years, teaching at the University of Ibadan. He is the author of Down Second Avenue, a novel, and three volumes of collections of his own short stories. inventory #22208.
