MANDELA: MY PRISONER, MY FRIEND

Book ID/图书代码： 01930013B63143

English Summary/英文概要： Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and claim superiority for whites. Nelson Mandela, also raised in a rural village, was the black son of a tribal chief. He trained as a lawyer to take up the fight against apartheid on behalf of a whole nation. Their opposing worlds collided when Christo, a raw recruit from the country’s prison service, was sent to Robben Island to guard the notoriously dangerous terrorists there. Mandela was their undisputed leader. The two of them, a boy of 18 and a long-suffering freedom fighter then aged 60, could well have become bitter enemies. Instead, they formed an extraordinary friendship through small human kindnesses. Christo, a gentle young man who valued ordinary decency and courtesy, struck a chord with the wise and resilient old freedom fighter who was prepared to die to liberate his people. The African tribesman in Mandela meant that family was a priority for him, yet he had been sentenced to life imprisonment. When his mother died, he was refused permission to go to her funeral. Mandela, the oldest son whose responsibility was written in blood, wept with shame and despair. Christo was to witness that despair many times during his years as Mandela’s prison warder. When Winnie secretly brought their tiny granddaughter to Robben Island it was Christo who risked his own freedom to put the baby in Mandela’s arms. Their friendship was sealed by many such shared moments. And the bond of trust between the two men extended beyond Mandela’s prison years. As President of South Africa, he called for Christo and gave him a job in the archives department in Parliament. He invited Christo and his family into his home and advised his two sons on their careers. A few weeks before his death, Mandela made another call, to say goodbye. This book tells the story of their friendship in Christo’s words for the first time.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 克里斯托•布兰德曾是一个南非农场男孩，在南非荷兰语文化中成长，从小便在关于种族隔离及迫害黑人，和白人优越感的氛围下耳渎目染。 纳尔逊•曼德拉(Nelson Mandela)，也同样在农场长大，是当地一位种族的首领的黑人儿子。 作为一名受过高等教育的律师，代表一个全国受压迫的南非黑色人种，与当时的种族隔离制度作斗争。当年的克里斯托，一个来自国家的监狱系统的新手，被派往罗本海岛去看守当时所谓臭名远扬地危险恐怖分子，两人的世界因此而发生了碰撞。 曼德拉当时是黑人民众心中无可争议的领导。 这牢狱中二人中的一位，是一个从18岁起便立志长期坚忍为自由而战抗争至花甲之岁的斗士，在这样的背景下，二人很可能升级为仇敌。 然而，人性中那一丝尚存的善良本性却让这最不可能的两人结成了非凡的友谊。克里斯托，是一位重视正统礼仪的一个正直的年轻人，对眼前的这位随时准备为解放他人自由而赴死的，有着睿智和韧性意志的老者而折服。 非洲部落对曼德拉意味着家庭是放在首要位置，而他却被宣判无期徒刑。 当他老母离世，他被当局否决允许去赶赴母亲的葬礼。作为家中长子的曼德拉，只能以血洗去心中的羞辱和绝望。 克里斯托作为曼德拉的看守，曾许多次目睹了曼德拉的难熬岁月。 当温妮(Winnie)悄悄地把他们最小的孙女带到罗本海岛时，恐怕世人不会知道这是看守克里斯托甘冒自己的身家风险，让曼德拉得以重温家人片刻的温馨。 他们之间友谊在许多这样时刻被秘密封存着。而这二个人之间的相互信任也随着曼德拉的牢狱岁月慢慢延伸。 成为南非总统后，曼德拉曾要给克里斯托在国会的档案部门安排一份差事。 曼德拉在这之后还邀请了克里斯托和他的家人来他的家中做客，并对克里斯托的二个儿子的职业生涯赠予了至理名言。 在这位南非斗士去世几个星期之前，曼德拉给这位罗本海岛的“狱友”打了一次告别的电话。本书正是当年的这位监狱看守本人所讲述的一段难能珍贵的友谊故事。(Sandy)

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