The Lion Sleeps at Night

Rian Malan has worked as a journalist in South Africa and the United States. My Traitor's Heart was his first book. He lives in South Africa.

Here is truth-telling at its most exemplary and courageous. The remorseless exercise of a reporter's anguished conscience gives us a South Africa we thought we knew all about: but we knew nothing.-- John le Carre Malan is South Africa's Christopher Hitchens, similarly touched with genius.-- Justin Cartwright, Daily Telegraph Cynical, lively and above all, opinionated... Malan's writing remains relevant and provides a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa.-- The Sunday Times travel section Hugely alive. Malan's writing is animated by anger and a savage irony, yet it is always controlled, clear and readable.-- Sunday Herald Bracing, cheeky, and a damn good read.-- Spectator The Lion Sleeps Tonight is an arresting collection. South Africa should treasure Malan, but it won't. One suspects he wouldn't have it any other way.-- The Sunday Times