south africa

Sixteen short stories about subjects including family life, racist society, and political upheaval.

Anna watches as her older brother upsets the family by involving himself in illegal activities to escape from the poverty of his home life in South Africa.

Describes the land, people, history, and government of South Africa.

After magician Primo Verona's wife Beatrice leaves him for their best friend Chef Pasquale Benvenuto, Primo places a curse on Pasquale which makes it difficult for him to walk without his shoe laces coming undone, and simultaneously spoiling his famous pastries.

Mrs. Curren, a dying professor in Cape Town, South Africa has been insulated from the brutality of apartheid but now is forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought.

Presents an account of the author's experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa.

Follows the life of the woman who married a prominent leader for racial equality in South Africa and then became an activist in that field herself.

After his older brother is killed in the South African Defence Force, sixteen-year-old Walter involves himself in the interracial fighting in the Illongweni Valley.