Episode
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Set against the volatile backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa, Episode by Harry Bloom is a gripping and morally charged novel that chronicles the explosive tensions simmering beneath the surface of a racially divided township. At its centre is a community pushed to the breaking point, where a single act of violence ignites a chain of events that lays bare the brutal machinery of institutionalised racism — a story as urgent and raw today as it was upon its first publication in 1956. Bloom, a South African lawyer and activist, writes with the precision of a legal mind and the passion of a witness to injustice, crafting a narrative that is at once a searing political indictment and a deeply human portrait of resistance and despair. Episode stands as a significant, if underappreciated, work of mid-twentieth-century literature — a novel that anticipates the moral reckoning of the anti-apartheid movement and asks the reader to confront where complicity ends and courage begins.
Author: Harry Bloom
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Collins, St James's Place, London
Genre: African history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Set against the volatile backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa, Episode by Harry Bloom is a gripping and morally charged novel that chronicles the explosive tensions simmering beneath the surface of a racially divided township. At its centre is a community pushed to the breaking point, where a single act of violence ignites a chain of events that lays bare the brutal machinery of institutionalised racism — a story as urgent and raw today as it was upon its first publication in 1956. Bloom, a South African lawyer and activist, writes with the precision of a legal mind and the passion of a witness to injustice, crafting a narrative that is at once a searing political indictment and a deeply human portrait of resistance and despair. Episode stands as a significant, if underappreciated, work of mid-twentieth-century literature — a novel that anticipates the moral reckoning of the anti-apartheid movement and asks the reader to confront where complicity ends and courage begins.