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"My friends, comrades and fellow South Africans – I greet you all in the name of peace," declared Nelson Mandela on his release from prison nine years ago; Anthony Sampson's biography of the great statesman is published. Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer's prison diaries, the Buru Quartet, are translated into English for the first time. Plus, David Guterson talks about his new novel, East of the Mountains; and psychotherapist Susie Orbach about her novel, The Impossibility of Sex.
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