by Breyten Breytenbach · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246376811
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«Mémoire de poussière et de neige» is an epistolary novel by Breyten Breytenbach, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (372 pages, in French).
The narrative alternates two voices: Meheret, an Ethiopian journalist exiled in Paris, writes to her future son to introduce him to her family and to Mano, a mixed-race South African actor committed to the fight against apartheid; later, already in prison, Mano writes to his own father and reconstructs the mission that led to his trial and conviction.
It is Breyten Breytenbach's first novel. The original edition, in French, was published in 1989.
For those seeking an epistolary novel with a political backdrop and characters marked by exile and family memory.
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party–led South African Government. He was also known as a founding member of the Sestigers, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important poets in Afrikaans literature.
