A Rainbow in the Night

by Lapierre, Dominique

• ISBN13: 9780306818479
• ISBN10: 0306818477
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-03
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's "Elect," chosen to rule over the continent. Their sagabloody, ferocious, and ferventwould culminate three centuries later in one of the greatest tragedies of history: the establishment of a racist regime in which a white minority would subjugate and victimize millions of blacks. Calledapartheid, it was a poisonous system that would only end with the liberation from prison of one of the moral giants of our time, Nelson Mandela.A Rainbow in the Nightis Dominique Lapierre's epic account of South Africa's tragic history and the heroic men and womenfamous and obscure, white and black, European and Africanwho have, with their blood and tears, brought to life the country that is today known as the Rainbow Nation.

Author Biography

World-renowned humanitarian and international bestselling author of The City of Joy and coauthor of Is Paris Burning? and O Jerusalem, Dominique Lapierre’s books have been read by more than ten million people around the world. He lives in France.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. ix
Maps	p. x
South Africa
The Great Trek to Conquer South Africa
In Search of a New Promised Land	p. 1
The Prime Minister's Bulldozers	p. 73
Helen and Chris: Two Lights in the Darkness	p. 129
"God Bless Africa"	p. 179
Epilogue	p. 237
Appendixes	p. 243
What They Became
This Was Apartheid
A Brief Chronology
Glossary
Bibliography
All that is not given is lost
Image Credits	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 269
Index	p. 271
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