Van tuis medisyne (Afrikaans, hardcover, used) isZulu

Van tuis medisyne (Afrikaans, hardcover, used) isZuluAfrikaans text. boards are shelf rubbed and a bit knocked. book is marked. no inscriptions. well bound. fairly good copy. 2001 edition

the barefoot apple-seller who turned into a mining millionaire

Read his obituary here

to be taken hostage by the photographic image

While a student at Charterhouse school in Surrey

Her name is Andrée de Jongh

the novella which gives its title to this collection

Lurie pursues his relationship with the young Melanie—whom he describes as having hips “as slim as a twelve-year-old’s”—obsessively and narcissistically

I wish I could use my real name

Through drawings of different body shapes

he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him

from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace

published in 1948