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  • Peace or Apartheid in Palestine
    by Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 0786294086 (0-7862-9408-6)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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    The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, and he has continued his public and private diplomacy ever since, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work for peace, human rights, and international development. He has been a tireless author since then as well, writing bestselling books on his childhood, his faith, and American history and politics, but in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he has returned to the Middle East and to the question of Israel's peace with its neighbors--in particular, how Israeli sovereignty and security can coexist permanently and peacefully with Palestinian nationhood.

    It's a rare honor to ask questions of a former president, and we are grateful that President Carter was able to take the time in between his work with his wife, Rosalynn, for the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity and his many writing projects to speak with us about his hopes for the region and his thoughts on the book.

    A big thank you to President Carter for granting our request for an interview.

    Amazon.com's interview with US President Jimmy Carter

    Q: What has been the importance of your own faith in your continued interest in peace in the Middle East?
    A: As a Christian, I worship the Prince of Peace. One of my preeminent commitments has been to bring peace to the people who live in the Holy Land. I made my best efforts as president and still have this as a high priority.

    Q: A common theme in your years of Middle East diplomacy has been that leaders on both sides have often been more open to discussion and change in private than in public. Do you think that's still the case?
    A: Yes. This is why private and intense negotiations can be successful. More accurately, however, my premise has been that the general public (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) are more eager for peace than their political leaders. For instance, a recent poll done by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that 58% of Israelis and 81% of the Palestinians favor a comprehensive settlement similar to the Roadmap for Peace or the Saudi proposal adopted by all 23 Arab nations and recently promoted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Tragically, there have been no substantive peace talks during the past six years.

    Q: How have the war in Iraq and the increased strength of Iran (and the declarations of their leaders against Israel) changed the conditions of the Israel-Palestine question?
    A: Other existing or threatened conflicts in the region greatly increase the importance of Israel's having peace agreements with its neighbors, to minimize overall Arab animosity toward both Israel and the United States and reduce the threat of a broader conflict.

    Q: Your use of the term "apartheid" has been a lightning rod in the response to your book. Could you explain your choice? Were you surprised by the reaction?
    A: The book is about Palestine, the occupied territories, and not about Israel. Forced segregation in the West Bank and terrible oppression of the Palestinians create a situation accurately described by the word. I made it plain in the text that this abuse is not based on racism, but on the desire of a minority of Israelis to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land. This violates the basic humanitarian premises on which the nation of Israel was founded. My surprise is that most critics of the book have ignored the facts about Palestinian persecution and its proposals for future peace and resorted to personal attacks on the author. No one could visit the occupied territories and deny that the book is accurate.

    Q: You write in the book that "the peace process does not have a life of its own; it is not self-sustaining." What would you recommend that the next American president do to revive it?
    A: I would not want to wait two more years. It is encouraging that President George W. Bush has announced that peace in the Holy Land will be a high priority for his administration during the next two years. On her January trip to the region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for early U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. She has recommended the 2002 offer of the Arab nations as a foundation for peace: full recognition of Israel based on a return to its internationally recognized borders. This offer is compatible with official U.S. Government policy, previous agreements approved by Israeli governments in 1978 and 1993, and with the International Quartet's "roadmap for peace." My book proposes that, through negotiated land swaps, this "green line" border be modified to permit a substantial number of Israelis settlers to remain in Palestine. With strong U.S. pressure, backed by the U.N., Russia, and the European Community, Israelis and Palestinians would have to come to the negotiating table.

    1/18/2007
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  • The Power of One
    by Bryce Courtenay
    ISBN 0316158259 (0-316-15825-9)
    Softcover, Little Brown & Company

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    The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.
    The New York Times

    Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independencethe power of onecan prevail.
    Cleveland Plain Dealer


    In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreamswhich are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one.


    Totally engrossing . . . [presents] the metamorphosis of a most remarkable young man and the almost spiritual influence he has on others . . . Peekay has both humor and a refreshingly earthy touch, and his adventures, at times, are hair-raising in their suspense.
    Los Angeles Times Book Review

    Marvelous . . . It is the people of the sun-baked plains of Africa who tug at the heartstrings in this book. . . . [Bryce] Courtenay draws them all with a fierce and violent love.
    The Washington Post Book World

    Impressive.
    Newsday

    A compelling tale.
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  • The Rainbow People of God
    by Desmond Tutu
    ISBN 0385483740 (0-385-48374-0)
    Softcover, Image Books

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    The Rainbow People Of God traces South Africa's glorious victory over apartheid in the writings and speeches of one its central figures, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From the graveside of Steven Biko to the triumphant inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, Tutu's words and presence helped shape events and led South Africa toward justice and freedom. This astonishing tapestry of narrative is not only a valuable historical document of those significant events, but it also showcases the unique sense of spirit of one of the foremost spiritual leaders in the world. Tested through the greatest adversity, these writings will endure for generations to come by their truly powerful combination of compassion and strength. [via]

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  • The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution
    by Desmond Tutu, John Allen
    ISBN 0385475462 (0-385-47546-2)
    Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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    Letters, sermons, and other moving documents written by the Nobel Prize-winning Archbishop of Capetown--together with connecting narrative by journalist John Allen--provide a firsthand history of his long, courageous leadership of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. [via]

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  • Tandia: Library Edition
    by Bryce Courtenay
    ISBN 0316158283 (0-316-15828-3)
    Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

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    Tandia sat waiting anxiously for the fight to begin between the man she loved the most and the man she hated the most in the world. Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist. With her in the fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay. Now he must fight their common enemy in order to save both their lives. A compelling story of good and evil from Australias most popular storyteller, Bryce Courtenay. Humphrey Bower is brilliant ... First with the head, then with the heart will resonate in the hearts and minds of listeners long after the final chapter.  AudioFile [via]

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  • Sparks, Allister: Tomorrow Is Another Country
    Tomorrow Is Another Country
    by Allister Sparks
    ISBN 0226768554 (0-226-76855-4)
    Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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  • The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
    by Breyten Breytenbach
    ISBN 0156001349 (0-15-600134-9)
    Softcover, Thomson Learning EMEA, Limited

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    A memoir of Breytenbachs seven years in South Africas prisons - two of them in solitary confinement - this book captures the full horror of life in one of the worst penal systems in the world.
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  • Fugard, Athol: Tsotsi
    Tsotsi
    by Athol Fugard
    ISBN 0802142680 (0-8021-4268-0)
    Softcover, Grove Pr

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  • De Villiers, Marq: White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots As Witnessed by Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family
    White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots As Witnessed by Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family
    by Marq De Villiers
    ISBN 0140102701 (0-14-010270-1)
    Softcover, Penguin USA

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    • Schande
      by J. M. Coetzee
      ISBN 3596150981 (3-596-15098-1)
      Softcover

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      David Lurie ist schon in seinem eigenen Leben kein Held, geschweige im dem von jemand anderem. Mit 52 Jahren ist der Protagonist von Schande am Ende seines beruflichen wie auch seines Liebeslebens angelangt und scheint geradezu absichtlich mit dem Unglück zu flirten. Seit langem Professor für Neuere Philologien am Cape Town University College in Kapstadt, wurde er kürzlich zum Assistenzprofessor für Kommunikation derselben Einrichtung degradiert, die mittlerweile ostentativ in Cape Technical University umbenannt wurde.

      Obwohl er seiner neuen Disziplin täglich viele Stunden widmet, findet er deren erste Prämisse, wie sie im "Communications 101"-Handbuch formuliert ist, geradezu absurd: "Die menschliche Gesellschaft hat die Sprache erfunden, damit wir unsere Gedanken, unsere Gefühle und unsere Absichten einander mitteilen können." Seiner Ansicht nach -- die er für sich behält -- liegen die Ursprünge der Sprache im Gesang, die Ursprünge des Gesangs wiederum in der Notwendigkeit, die übergroße und ziemlich leere menschliche Seele mit Klang zu erfüllen.

      David, der bereits zweimal geschieden ist und dessen äußerliche Anziehungskraft nachläßt, verführt auf ziemlich unbarmherzige Weise eine seiner Studentinnen; sein unschickliches Verhalten wird bald aufgedeckt. In seinem achten Roman wäre J.M. Coetzee vielleicht damit zufrieden gewesen, eine tiefgründige akademische Satire zu schreiben. Aber in Schande hat er sich weitaus mehr vorgenommen, und seine Kunst ist so kompromißlos wie seine Hauptfigur -- allerdings auch unendlich komplexer. Nicht bereit, das Spiel der öffentliche Reue mitzumachen, läßt sich David schließlich feuern -- eine letzte Geste der Verachtung. Nun, denkt er, kann er sich hinsetzen und etwas über Byrons letzte Lebensjahre schreiben -- keine leere, ungelesene Kritik, "Prosa als Meterware" sozusagen, sondern ein Libretto. Zu diesem Zweck reist er in die Ost-Kap-Provinz zur Farm seiner Tochter. Lucy, die Mitte Zwanzig ist, kehrte dem Schick der Stadt den Rücken und lebt nun auf fünf Hektar Land vom Blumen- und Gemüseanbau und einem Hundeasyl. "Nichts könnte einfacher sein", denkt David. In Wirklichkeit könnte nichts schwieriger sein -- oder, jetzt im neuen Südafrika, gefährlicher. Weit davon entfernt, die Zuflucht zu sein, die er gesucht hat, ist in Salem kaum etwas sicher. Gerade als sich David in seine vorübergehende Rolle als Landarbeiter und wenig begeisterter Freiwilliger im Tierheim eingelebt hat, werden er und Lucy von drei schwarzen Männern überfallen. Unfähig, seine Tochter zu beschützen, ist Davids Schande nun komplett. Ihre ist allerdings weitaus größer.

      Es gibt in Coetzees schmerzlichem Roman viel mehr zu erkunden, und wenig davon ist tröstlich. Es wäre zu einfach, seinen Titel aufzugreifen und Schande als eine komplizierte Aufarbeitung persönlicher und politischer Schande und Verantwortung zu betrachten. Aber das Anliegen des Autors ist die Geschichte seines Landes, die Brutalitäten und der Verrat. Coetzee setzt sich auch mit der Frage auseinander, wieviel Seele und wieviele Rechte wir Tieren zugestehen. Nach dem Überfall nimmt David seine Rolle im Hundeasyl viel ernster und findet schließlich eine Art Zuhause und ein gewisses Maß an Liebe. In Coetzees The Lives of Animals, vor kurzem in der Schriftenreihe der Princeton University erschienen, erzählt eine alternde Romanschriftstellerin ihren Zuhörern, daß die Frage, die alle Labor- und Zootiere beschäftigt, lautet: "Wo ist mein Zuhause, und wie komme ich dorthin?" Obwohl er im Vergleich zu den ungewollten Tieren, die in seiner Obhut sind, geradezu allmächtig ist, ist David letztendlich genauso gefangen und genauso verloren wie sie.

      Schande ist geradezu gewollt einfach. Und doch besitzt es seine ganz eigene magere,herzzerreißende Lyrik, vor allem in den Beschreibungen der ungewollten Tiere. Am Anfang der Geschichte erklärt David seiner Studentin, daß Lyrik den Leser entweder sofort anspricht -- "eine plötzliche Offenbarung und eine plötzliche Reaktion" -- oder überhaupt nicht. Coetzees Buch spricht da anders; seine Schichten und Traurigkeiten wickeln sich endlos ab. --Kerry Fried [via]

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