Volume 40, Number 20 · December 2, 1993
Resisters
By J.M. Coetzee
In No Uncertain Terms: A South African Memoir
by Helen Suzman, foreword by Nelson Mandela
Knopf, 300 pp., $25.00
Return to Paradise
by Breyten Breytenbach
Harcourt Brace, 224 pp., $22.95
Helen Suzman was born in South Africa, the daughter of parents who at the turn of the century had emigrated from Lithuania to a then British colony whose burgeoning economy and liberal administration promised prosperity and security. They belonged to a wave of Jewish immigrants whose anglicized children and grandchildren were to become the backbone of the liberal intelligentsia in South Africa, playing leading roles in commerce, the professions, and the arts, as well as in progressive politics.
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