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Review "Breytenbach's passionate desire to know and serve the truth, whatever it may be and whoever it may offend, is deeply admirable." —The Washington Post "As a writer, Breytenbach has the gift of being able to descend effortlessly into the Africa of the poetic unconscious and return with the rhythm and the words, the words in the rhythm, that give life." —J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books "No white South African writer has penetrated as deeply into his own country as Breytenbach—and none has been as successful in the flowering of his art in exile." —Donald Woods"[Return to Paradise] is written with a wild heart and an unrelenting eye, and is fueled by the sort of rage that produces great literature." —The Washington Post "Obviously the greatest Afrikaner poet of his generation… No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and no one wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime as its exiled poet Breyten Breytenbach." —The New Yorker "It is impossible to stop our ears against the excruciating power of what Breytenbach has to say." —Nadine Gordimer Product Description "The greatest Afrikaner poet of his generation."—The New YorkerReminiscent of Julio Cortázar's Cronopios and Famas, this searing collection of lyrical and often nightmarish prose pieces is inventive in both language and vision. At once vulnerable, playful, heart-wrenching, and melancholy, these dreamscapes shed light on the human condition, exile, and death. A feast for the senses and the mind.Breyten Breytenbach is the author of All One Horse, Intimate Stranger, Mouroir, Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago Books), The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, A Season in Paradise, and Windcatcher, among many others. His honors include the Alan Paton Award, the Hertzog Prize, the Prix Max Jacob, and the Mahmoud Darwish Award. About the Author Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, painter, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and activist. Born in South Africa, he immigrated to Paris in the late '60s and became deeply involved in the anti-Apartheid movement. Breytenbach's works include All One Horse, Mouroir, Intimate Stranger, Notes from the Middle World, A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, Lady One, Windcatcher, and Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish. His many honors include the Alan Paton Award, the Hertzog Prize, the Max Jacob Prize, and the Mahmoud Darwish Award.