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Memory is not to be trusted: a South African memoir traces the search for a family secret

15 March 2026 by CapeTownNewsReader

South African-born literary scholar Dennis Walder recently published an evocative life story called Amid the Alien Corn: A Son’s Memoir. In it, he tracks how, even as a child, he became aware that his …Read More at Source

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