Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg Paperback Book

Description: Winnie & Nelson by Jonny Steinberg *Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize*Gripping and profoundly moving DAMON GALGUTDeft and operatic OBSERVER FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description *Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize*Gripping and profoundly moving DAMON GALGUTDeft and operatic OBSERVER From one of South Africaâ™s foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandelaâ™s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and groundbreaking union, a very modern political marriage that played out on the world stage.One of the most celebrated political leaders of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie. During his years in prison, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers frozen in time. But Winnie, every bit his political equal, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband â™ s politics. Behind his back, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power, a path he feared would lead to an endless civil war.Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage â" its longings, its obsessions, its deceits â" turning the course of South African history into a page-turning political biography. Winnie & Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesnâ™t just affect the couple at its centre, but an entire nation. It is also a Shakespearean drama in which bonds of love and commitment mingle with timeless questions of revolution, such as whether to seek retribution or a negotiated peace. Told with power and tender emotional insight, Steinberg reveals how far these forever entwined leaders would go for one another, and also, where they drew the line. For in the end both knew theirs was not simply a marriage, but a contest to decide how apartheid should be fought. Author Biography Jonny Steinberg is a South African writer and scholar who has taught at Oxford University, Yale and Wits University in Johannesburg.He is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africas transition to democracy. Two of them, Midlands (2002), about the murder of a white South African farmer, and The Number (2004), a biography of a prison gangster, won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. In 2013 he was awarded the prestigious $150,000 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. Review A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR; A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR; A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR; A WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEARA gripping portrait of Africas most famous romantic couple . . . The most nuanced of storytellers, Steinberg has always had an extraordinary ability to get inside his protagonists heads . . . [and] is a superb chronicler of modern Africa, capturing the poignant, questing energy of its inhabitants lives like no other writer The TimesWinnie & Nelson is a beautiful and immensely sad book. Steinberg, a distinguished South African writer and scholar, chronicles that pain, and writes about each of them with insight and empathy . . . Winnie & Nelson is more than a joint biography, as good as it is at that; its a deft and operatic interweaving of two outsized characters ObserverAn excellent new biography of the couple . . . Steinberg suspects that the couples myths will only endure – but his thorough interrogation of their story should help readers reconcile themselves with the messier truth Daily Telegraph, **** review[A]n empathetic portrait of one of the most controversial power couples in history… What Steinberg does extremely well in this book is to pry those doors ajar using archive, interviews and never-seen-before transcripts of conversations between Winnie and Nelson during prison visits Sunday TimesGripping and profoundly moving, this is Jonny Steinbergs finest book. I cant wait to read it again Damon Galgut, Booker Prize–winning author of The Promise, in Literary HubUnlikely to be superseded in a long time J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate 2003Remarkable . . . a powerful, page-turning political fable unlike any Ive readAminatta Forna, author of Happiness and The Window Seat Details ISBN0008353816 Author Jonny Steinberg Pages 576 Year 2024 ISBN-10 0008353816 ISBN-13 9780008353810 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Format Paperback Imprint William Collins Subtitle Portrait of a Marriage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9780008353797 DEWEY 968.0710922 Audience General Publication Date 2024-04-11 UK Release Date 2024-04-11 NZ Release Date 2024-09-16 AU Release Date 2024-09-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160756738;

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