I would like to be able to say that this book 'tells it like it was' in the same way that Andre Brink's A Dry White Season does, but two things make me hesitate to say that. moreĪ Bildungsroman about growing up in apartheid South Africa - a white boy at school, then an army conscript, and afterwards. Always warm-hearted, sometimes comic, ultimately damning.'. Coetzee calls The Persistence of Memory 'a story of coming to maturity in South Africa in the bad old days. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's 'horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful' prose to be 'comparable to his fellow authors of Apartheid Andre Brink and Nadine Gordimer.' As the novel builds to a harrowing conclusion, the protagonist, a veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, is forced to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee with astonishing results.

In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's 'horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful' prose to be 'comparabl 'Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick.'-Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review

'Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick.'-Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity.

The persistence of memory