Bøger af Rian Malan

I ve believed in God my whole life. But as everything fell apart in 2021, I leaned on Him in a whole new way. When Covid took my job and my stability, I turned to the Bible for comfort and help. Devouring the 727,969 words of scripture in 3 months was like eating through the entire menu of the finest restaurant in the world. I tasted and saw that the Lord is good, and I couldn t keep that goodness to myself. So, I asked God what He wanted me to do with what He d taught me. That s when Blessing In A Tweet came to me. The mission of Blessing In A Tweet was to compile a tweet of precisely 140 characters that would serve as a daily reminder of how God calls me to live my life. Love, trust and obey God and His Way. Do to others as you want others to do to you. Pray and hope through Jesus with faith and thanksgiving. - Blessing In A TweetThe first word of the Blessing In A Tweet is love. Its placement is intentional. The Bible includes a lot of teachings on love. In fact, love is listed 551 times in the Bible (NIV). So, Love In A Tweet is a natural progression from Blessing In A Tweet. Whereas my first book condensed the whole Bible into a tweet, this book distills the Bible s teachings on love into 140 characters. When I started writing this book, I was consumed with praying and reading about love. Every day I would ask the Holy Spirit for insights about love. Love In A Tweet is the fruit of that labor. As I studied the Bible s teachings on love, one question kept plaguing me: Am I living a life of love? Perhaps this question haunts you, too. I ll share God s answer in the following pages. Living a life of love is rewarding. A life of love is filled with riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity. Are you living a life of love?

Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan's classic work of narrative nonfiction "My Traitor's Heart" has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is Malan's remarkable chronicle of South Africa's halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. Some of the essays previously appeared in a collection published only in South Africa, Resident Alien, but others are collected here for the first time. The collection comprises twenty-three pieces; the title story investigates the provenance of the world famous song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda who recorded a song called "Mbube" in the 1930s, which went on to be covered by Pete Seeger, REM, and Phish, and was incorporated into the musical "The Lion King." In other stories, Malan follows the trial of Winnie Mandela and plunges into the explosive controversy over President Mbeki's AIDS policies of the 1990s. The stories, combined with Malan's sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa.

With The Lion Sleeps Tonight South Africa's answer to Hunter S. Thompson returns with his first book since the groundbreaking classic My Traitor's Heart.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag.