Return to Paradise

by Breyten Breytenbach

Book Overview

Breyten Breytenbach is one of South Africa's foremost but for years he has had a complex and painful relationship with his home country. In 1973, after thirteen years in exile, he was permitted a three-month visit there. A Season in Paradise, the first part of his triptych about South Africa, is an account of that bittersweet trip: "A spiritual journey, an earthly travelog, a poet's chronicle of his soul, the mythic biography of a country, an exotic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156001322
• ISBN13: 9780156001328
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"