Amy Biehl’s Last Home - A Bright Life, a Tragic Death, and a Journey of Reconciliation in South Africa (Hardcover)

In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and women’s rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa’s most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation. Amy’s parents not only established a humanitarian foundation to serve the black township where she was killed, but supported amnesty for her killers and hired two of the young men to work for the Amy Biehl Foundation. The Biehls were hailed as heroes by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and many others in South Africa and the United States—but their path toward healing was neither quick nor easy. Granted unrestricted access to the Biehl family’s papers, Steven Gish brings Amy and the Foundation to life in ways that have eluded previous authors. He is the first to place Biehl’s story in its full historical context, while also presenting a gripping portrait of this remarkable young woman and the aftermath of her death across two continents.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Steven D. Gish
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2321-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-8214-2321-5
Barcode:	9780821423219

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