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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Jonathan Ball Publishers\, and Book Dealers for a launch of Jonny Steinberg’s newest book Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage. The scholar and award-winning author of Midlands and The Number\, will be in conversation with Professor and researcher at WISER Hlonipha Mokoena\, about his latest book. \nJonny Steinberg (born 22 March 1970) is a South African writer and scholar. He is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s 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\, Steinberg was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. \nAbout the book: One of the most celebrated political leaders of our time\, 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 Madikizela-Mandela. \nDuring 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’s politics. \nBehind his back\, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power\, a path he feared would lead to an endless war. Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage – its longings\, its obsessions\, its deceits – making South African history a page-turning political biography. \nWinnie and Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn’t affect just 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. \nSteinberg reveals\, with power and tender emotional insight\, how far these forever-entwined leaders would go for each other and where they drew the line. For in the end\, both knew theirs was not simply a marriage\, but a struggle to define anti-apartheid policy itself. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/book-launch-winnie-nelson-portrait-of-a-marriage-by-jonny-steinberg/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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