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2002 Nominated

A Mouthful of Glass

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

One day in 1966, in the chamber of the South African Parliament, Demitrios Tsafendas walked up to Hendrik Verwoerd, the Prime Minister, and stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife.
This is the extraordinary story of Tsafendas and his long exile from a society madder than he was.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Henk
Van Woerden

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Dan
Jacobson

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
The Netherlands
Original Language
Dutch
Publisher
Granta
Translator
Dan Jacobson

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