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Author Denis Hirson is back in South Africa for a visit from France, which he has called home since 1975, to speak about his latest offering – My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah: A Memoir.
Hirson is one of SA’s illustrious, intellectual minds who has written a series of memoirs that are a kind of depiction of a country that has been lost to many.
He revisits the 1960s, when he marked his 13th birthday through the Jewish right of passage during the apartheid years.
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He speaks to Books & Beverages podcast host Fred Khumalo about what triggered him to write.
He says:
Hirson also looks at the current situation in SA and says citizens are saturated in the crisis and not looking at life around them.
