VAN HEERDEN, ETIENNE (TRANSLATED BY MALCOLM HACKSLEY) — Ancestral Voices

New York, NY: Viking, 1992. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670828319. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There are three tiny spots to the rear book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Despite at times at odds with the apartheid government, van Heerden never left South Africa permanently, and now teaches at the University of Cape Town, where he is the Hofmeyr Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures, and chairs the Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies Section. His current activities at the University of Cape Town include the supervision of Creative Writing, where he has led a generation of young Afrikaans authors to published status, and the lecturing of courses in Literary Theory, Media Studies, and South African and Dutch Literature. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .