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Jan 28, 2012
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Sometimes I love that I live under a rock. Because then I read things like this book, only to find out a movie was made of it starring Donald Sutherland, co-starring Susan Sarandon and Marlon Brando. Hello, Rock; I hope you're comfortable on top of me.
I sort of breezed through this book, which is totally the author's fault because it was just that good. I was invested the entire time. Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in Johannesburg during the Apartheid. When a black friend comes to him for ...more
I sort of breezed through this book, which is totally the author's fault because it was just that good. I was invested the entire time. Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in Johannesburg during the Apartheid. When a black friend comes to him for ...more
This book was incredible. It puts real human faces on a part of history that I had only read about in big overarching dates and facts.
It also really hit home in how people react to large societal norms and injustices. Most of us feel that the problem is just too big for one person, but this is the story of one man who saw something that wasn't right an set out to investigate. He wasn't trying to change society he was only trying to figure out how something like the death of a promising young bl ...more
It also really hit home in how people react to large societal norms and injustices. Most of us feel that the problem is just too big for one person, but this is the story of one man who saw something that wasn't right an set out to investigate. He wasn't trying to change society he was only trying to figure out how something like the death of a promising young bl ...more
Jun 24, 2025
Lauren
marked it as to-read
