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Mafeking Road Und Andere Erzählungen (1947)

by Herman Charles Bosman(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3940111678 (ISBN13: 9783940111678)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Ed. Büchergilde

review 1: Probably the best set of short stories to come out of Africa. Sentenced to death for shooting his rooinek (English) brother-in-law, Mr Bosman was a hard man with an eye for detail. Every one of his books is a classic in its own right. After the death sentence was commuted on appeal, he spent some years in prison, where he wrote Cold Stone Jug, a chronicle of his prison experiences. Please note that there are no politically correct views expressed in his literature.
review 2: what do i have to do to sell this book? i put it on table, and nothing. i make a lovely endcap just for archipelego books, and nothing. why wont you believe me? isnt it pretty, with its van gogh cover and rich purple textured cover? and read the back: blurbs!! from people i have never heard... more of, but they are blurbs!! well, there is publishers weekly, but they compare these stories to robert frost or bob dylan, so i dont know if they can be trusted. but i know i can be. these are more like o henry or thomas hardy on a gentle day. they are mostly very short - under 10 pages, but they all have those snappy endings that cause laughter or empathy or both. they are cleverly written and also have shades of mark twain in them (does it help if i name-drop?) c'mon, is it the afrikaner thing? theres a little racial inequality here, but if i can gloss over it, so can you! is it cuz he killed his stepbrother? because - glass houses, guys. weve all had those days. just read the book. i want someone else to have read it. i said please. less

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