Granta 69: The Assassin

by Ian Jack (ed.) | Journals |
ISBN: 0903141345 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Annimanni of Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on 4/10/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by Annimanni from Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Thursday, April 10, 2008
"Demitrios Tsafendas was half-European, half-African. He spoke eight languages and had an appetite for many things: the Bible, chocolate, friendship, love. One morning in Cape Town he bought a knife. A few hours later he went up to the South African premier, Hendrik Verwoerd, and stabbed him to death. Verwoerd was the architect of apartheid; after Kennedy, his is perhaps the most dramatic political assassination in modern history. And yet it seemed a random event; they said Tsafendas was mad. In this issue of Granta, Henk van Woerden unravels the assassin's strange, affecting history - the story of a man who went everywhere and belonged nowhere; not in his birthplace, Mozambique, nor in Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Britain, Portugal or the USA; and finally not in South Africa. He longed to belong. Was this his madness?"

This issue also includes short stories by Paul Theroux, Hanif Kureishi, Graham Swift, Diana Athill and others.

Journal Entry 2 by Annimanni at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (8/19/2009 UTC) at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

On its way to the winner of the August International RABCK sweepstakes. Enjoy!

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Also released for the Rescue Those Books Challenge 2009.

Journal Entry 3 by chamonix44 from Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands on Saturday, August 22, 2009
This book arrived today. Thank you Annimanni. I have had a good look through the book and judging by the photos within the book, and reading other people's reviews on the internet, I have come to the conclusion that these short stories are all true. The book looks very interesting indeed, and I look forward to reading it. Thank you for choosing this for me. I think it is a great choice. Thanks also for the postcard with view from very picturesque places in Finland. It makes me want to be there!

Journal Entry 4 by chamonix44 at Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands on Saturday, April 6, 2019
Half of the stories in this book I found interesting, and the other half were not really to my taste. Time to move the book on.

Journal Entry 5 by chamonix44 at Firezone Benzinepomp in Goor, Overijssel Netherlands on Saturday, April 6, 2019

Released 5 yrs ago (4/7/2019 UTC) at Firezone Benzinepomp in Goor, Overijssel Netherlands

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I will leave the book on top of a petrol pump.

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