cover image My Traitor's Heart

My Traitor's Heart

Rian Malan. Vintage Books USA, $15 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73215-0

In a ``blistering'' study, Johannesburg native Malan combines autobiography, reportage, a look at white liberals' dilemmas and tales of murder and violence committed primarily by white racists. ``Written with smoldering moral outrage, this odyssey offers a firsthand glimpse of South African apartheid and its practitioners' rationalizations,'' reported PW. (Feb.)