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- catalog abstract ""If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri Tsafendas would be that man. At a time in South Africa when color was all, Tsafendas, bastard son of a Greek father and African mother, was untouchable - too black for the whites and too white for the blacks. Stateless, homeless, and loveless, on September 6, 1966, 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." "Now, forty years later, 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, Tsafendas drifts from sea to prison, from kitchen hand to street vendor to blood donor, from Mozambique to Egypt, Greece, Canada, and back to the Cape. With sensitivity and passion, Van Woerden traces the inexorable road that leads to Verwoerd's killing 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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Mond vol glas. English".
- catalog contributor b12176144.
- catalog contributor b12176145.
- catalog contributor b12176146.
- catalog coverage "South Africa Politics and government 1961-1978.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri Tsafendas would be that man. At a time in South Africa when color was all, Tsafendas, bastard son of a Greek father and African mother, was untouchable - too black for the whites and too white for the blacks. Stateless, homeless, and loveless, on September 6, 1966, 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." "Now, forty years later, 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, Tsafendas drifts from sea to prison, from kitchen hand to street vendor to blood donor, from Mozambique to Egypt, Greece, Canada, and back to the Cape. With sensitivity and passion, Van Woerden traces the inexorable road that leads to Verwoerd's killing 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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog extent "176 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0805066314 (hc.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng dut".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Metropolitan Books,".
- catalog spatial "South Africa Politics and government 1961-1978.".
- catalog spatial "South Africa".
- catalog spatial "South Africa.".
- catalog subject "839.3/1364 21".
- catalog subject "Apartheid South Africa.".
- catalog subject "Assassins South Africa Biography.".
- catalog subject "DT1949.T78 W6413 2001".
- catalog subject "Tsafendas, Demitrios, 1918-1999.".
- catalog subject "Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch, 1901-1966 Assassination.".
- catalog title "Mond vol glas. English".
- catalog title "The assassin : a story of race and rage in the land of apartheid / Henk van Woerden ; translated by Dan Jacobson.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".