Stones against the Mirror. Friendship in the time of the South African Struggle

Stones against the Mirror is a brave and moving memoir which is both a family history and a story of friendship and betrayal in South Africa.
Lewin, Hugh
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978-1-4152-0148-0
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Title: Stones against the Mirror
Subtitle: Friendship in the time of the South African Struggle
Author: Hugh Lewin
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Umuzi
Cape Town, South Africa 2011
ISBN 9781415201480 / ISBN 978-1-4152-0148-0
Softcover, 14x22 cm, 192 pages

Description:

A brave and moving memoir which is both a family history and a story of friendship and betrayal between people caught up in the wrenching forces of the South African Struggle. It is framed as a journey between two railway stations. The departure is from Park station Johannesburg and the destination is York station in Britain. It is an actual journey and the arrival at York is a real event, but it is also a symbolic journey in which Lewin describes his progress towards a meeting with Adrian Leftwich, the man who betrayed him to the Security Police in 1964. Park station is the point of departure because it was the site in 1964 of the station bomb planted by John Harris who was associated with the cell in which Lewin operated. Stones against the Mirror therefore has a quest structure. After 40 years, Lewin is determined to meet with his long-term friend Leftwich both to find out what happened at his trial and to deal with the emotions of anger and bitterness that have assailed him ever since. Lewin’s subject is the culpability of betrayal.