Macmillan is proud and excited to announce that Conversations with Myself, the selected letters and diaries of Nelson Mandela, has been added to our non-fiction list.
This major new work covering almost the complete span of Madiba’s life will be published with the assistance and support of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
The book dominated the recent Frankfurt Book Fair and its publication is set to be a worldwide event.
Madiba was recently the subject of an elegantly-written profile in the New York Times:
The icon is a very old man now. His hair is white, his body frail. Visitors say Nelson Mandela leans heavily on a cane when he walks into his study. He slips off his shoes, lowers himself into a stiff-backed chair and lifts each leg onto a cushioned stool. His wife, Graça, adjusts his feet “so they’re symmetrical, and gives him a peck,” says George Bizos, his old friend and lawyer.
To Mr. Mandela’s left is a small table piled with newspapers in English and Afrikaans, the language of the whites who imprisoned him for 27 years. Family and old comrades sit to his right, where his hearing is better. His memory has weakened, but he still loves to reminisce, bringing out oft-told stories “like polished stones,” as one visitor put it.
For more information on Conversations with Myself, please see the flyer above. We can’t wait to bring the book to you next year!
Photo courtesy the New York Times
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