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A native of nowhere : the life of Nat Nakasa / Ryan Brown.
Van Pelt Library PN5476.N353 B769 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Ryan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nakasa, Nat.
- Journalists--South Africa--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Exiles.
- Black people.
- South Africa.
- Apartheid--South Africa.
- Apartheid.
- Black people--South Africa--Biography.
- Exiles--South Africa.
- South Africa--Biography.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1961.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 216 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2013.
- Summary:
- "On a warm July morning in 1965, South African writer Nat Nakasa stood facing the window of a friend's seventh floor apartment in Central Park West. ...Less than a year earlier, Nakasa had taken an "exit permit" from the apartheid government - a one-way ticket out of the country of his birth - and come to Harvard University on a journalism fellowship. Now he was caught in a precarious limbo, unable to return to South Africa ... He was, he had written, a "native of nowhere... a stateless man [and] a permanent wanderer", and he was running out of hope. Standing in that New York City apartment building, he faced the alien city. Then he jumped. He was 28 years old." -- Publishers's website.
- ISBN:
- 9781431405343
- 1431405345
- OCLC:
- 861335397
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