SOUTH AFRICA

 
Tomorrow is another country
Allister Sparks

This account of the negotiations that led to the dismantling of apartheid gives an insight into South Africa
 
Mandela
Anthony Sampson

Comprehensive, detailed biography of Mandela and a history of ANC and South Africa
 
Disgrace
 
J M Coetzee
This bleak parable of post-apartheid South Africa won the Booker prize
 
Red Dust
  Gillian Slovo

Memorable, riveting thriller based on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, looking into the minds of apartheid's victims and oppressors

See also Ties Of Blood
 
Burger's daughter
 
Nadine Gordimer

Compelling novel on the cost of conscience for children of white radicals who fought against apartheid, by South Africa's Nobel prize winner
 
Triomf
  
Marlene van Niekerk
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Chronicle of Afrikaner "white trash" in the lead up to South Africa's first democratic elections