The poet Roy Campbell called Herman Charles Bosman's stories of the wars and loves, faiths and superstitions, prejudice and insights of a backveld community "the best short stories that ever came out of South Africa." Others have called them the best Afrikaans stories ever written in English. In this centenary selection Mynhardt brings to loyal readers, as well as to a generation not yet acquainted with Bosman's genius, his personal choice of the best of them.
Language
English
Pages
219
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Wits University Press
Release
April 01, 2005
ISBN
186814416X
ISBN 13
9781868144167
Celebrating Bosman: A Centenary Selection of Herman Charles Bosman's Stories
The poet Roy Campbell called Herman Charles Bosman's stories of the wars and loves, faiths and superstitions, prejudice and insights of a backveld community "the best short stories that ever came out of South Africa." Others have called them the best Afrikaans stories ever written in English. In this centenary selection Mynhardt brings to loyal readers, as well as to a generation not yet acquainted with Bosman's genius, his personal choice of the best of them.