BREYTENBACK, Breyten.
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux , 1985.
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Publisher's advance proof of Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
Publisher's advance proof of Breytenbach's account of his imprisonment for high treason. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, from the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the verso of the front wrapper. American novelist and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). In near fine condition.
Best known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government, Breyten Breytenbach widely regarded as the informal national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region. On an illegal trip to South Africa in 1975 he was arrested and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for high treason. His work The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist describes aspects of his imprisonment. According to André Brink, Breytenbach was retried in June 1977 on new and fanciful charges that among other things, he had planned a submarine attack by the Soviet Navy on the prison at Robben Island through the conspiratorial "Okhela Organisation." The judge ultimately found him guilty only of having smuggled letters and poems out of jail for which he was fined $50.
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist.
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