In conversation with myself

In Conversation with Myself offers the reader a rare glimpse into the life of Nelson Mandela as a person, in his own voice: direct, clear and intimate. We follow him from the first awakening of his political conscience to his brilliant role on the world stage. We are given access to the letters he wrote during the most difficult moments of his long imprisonment, but also to the unpublished sequel to his autobiography The Long Walk to Freedom and his terrifying dreams in prison. Mandela took notes - and even small drawings - during meetings. During his flight in the early 1960s, he kept diaries about his struggle against apartheid and recorded almost seventy hours of conversations with friends. In this book, Mandela is neither icon nor saint. Here he is simply a human being of flesh and blood.