Ways of Staying by Kevin Bloom

Ways of Staying by Kevin Bloom      

As a journalist, Kevin Bloom had witnessed and reported on the rising tide of violence in post-apartheid South Africa. But when his own cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions he had been asking about the troubling political and social changes in his country took on a sickeningly personal urgency. Suddenly, it felt as though this South Africa was no longer the place he had grown up in or the place which felt like home. Still stunned by the loss, Bloom begins to trace the path of violence from the murder of his cousin in the hills of Zululand to the fatal shooting of the historian David Rattray, linking these individual crimes to the riven political landscape, and the riots and xenophobic attacks of 2008. Visceral, complicated and compassionate, Ways of Staying is an eloquent account of how the white community is coping with black majority rule, and in particular how one family is coping in the aftermath of their own private tragedy.

Here is a book that ventures far beneath the headlines and into the very marrow of a strange and troubled land, and yet it is in these dark places where few care to look that Kevin Bloom meets men and women who believe that South Africa's history can be overcome, men and women who are engaged in the act of imagining some kinder future. At times brutal and raw, at times tender and compassionate, Ways of Staying is in the final analysis a love song to a country that will not be forsaken.

Published:  Picador Africa 

Edition: First edition 2009

Details: Soft cover.  Consists of 228 pages. Size 151 x 232mm.  Weight 340 grams.

Condition: Good condition, binding is tight & strong and no wear to spine.

Inside pages are clean and intact with no tears.

 Small inscription first page.  

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