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Dog Heart : A Memoir Hardcover - 1999
by Breyten Breytenbach
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- Title Dog Heart : A Memoir
- Author Breyten Breytenbach
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0151004587I4N00
- ISBN 9780151004584 / 0151004587
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 5.62 x 8.24 x 0.91 in (14.27 x 20.93 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, Afrikaans - 20th century - Biography, Breytenbach, Breyten
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98047017
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Breyten Breytenbach's meditations are informed by a profound intelligence and wit and an overriding sense of the past. He is captivated by memories of the land that is no more, of the child he must have been. Breytenbach begins Dog Heart with his own beginning in Bonnievale, South Africa, and looks at his homeland through the prism of memory to uncover a new landscape. We read of the ouvolk, the moon and stars and trees and shrubs and rocks that are really petrified shamans, subterranean travelers, death dancers who change themselves into rocks to become invisible to those who invade the land. Then over time they forget to change back. Through searching honesty and dreamlike lyricism, Breytenbach raises the memoir to a new level.