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7%OFFLa Guma, Blanche, Klammer, Martin - In the Dark with My Dress on Fire: My Life in Cape Town, London, Havana and Home Again - 9781770099227 - V9781770099227
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In the Dark with My Dress on Fire: My Life in Cape Town, London, Havana and Home Again

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Description for In the Dark with My Dress on Fire: My Life in Cape Town, London, Havana and Home Again Paperback. My Life in Cape Town, London, Havana and Home Again. 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGHA. Dimension: 201 x 140 x 17. Weight: 266.
In the Dark with My Dress on Fire is the remarkable life story of Blanche La Guma, a South African woman who dedicated her life to ending apartheid through her various roles as professional nurse, wife and mother, and underground Communist activist. Born into a poor, working-class coloured family in Cape Town, Blanche met her future husband, the novelist Alex La Guma, while training as a nurse-midwife in the early 1950s. Together they fought apartheid at great personal risk before continuing the struggle in exile in London and Havana, Cuba. Harassed, banned, and imprisoned in solitary confinement for her ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Jacana Media
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781770099227
SKU
V9781770099227
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