âA tremendous book about candor, honor, and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it.â âMichael Herr
âHere is truth-telling at its most exemplary and courageous. The remorseless exercise of a reporterâs anguished conscience gives us a South Africa we thought we knew all about: but we knew nothing.â âJohn le CarrÊ
âMalan is bent on uncovering another level altogether of South African life, and he does so beautifully. . . . He sharply expands our understanding of his strange, strange countryâs complexities.â âWilliam Finnegan, The New York Times
âMy Traitorâs Heart grips you by the throat and wonât let go.â âPeter Gorner, The Chicago Tribune
âA passionate, blazingly honest testament . . . Those who read it will never again see South Africa in quite the same way.â âChristopher Hope, Los Angeles Times Book Review
âA book that is part investigative reportage, part personal confession, and in all respects remarkable. . . . Penetrating, comprehensive, andâin its relentless accumulation of ghastly detailâheartbreaking.â âJonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
âHere, as in nothing Iâve read before, is the demotic voice of black and Afrikaner South Africa. . . . Triumphant.â âSalman Rushdie
ââĻan unflinching and intimate story of a man fighting against injustice in his homeland, even as he must come to terms with his own familyâs poisonous role there.â âAustin Merrill, Vanity Fair