Hagen Engler Livres

Add a twist of humour to South African nostalgia with Hagen Engler's latest offering. Black Twitter, Blitz and a Boerie as Long as Your Leg is a light-hearted, humorous read of multiple entries that can be dipped into at will. Optimistic, topical and definitely tongue-in-cheek, this book could easily be that last-minute gift that you pick up at the airport before you head back to the parental home for the holidays. Not too politically edgy - so as not to offend any sensitive elephants in the room - it draws on the great many things that South Africans do have in common, and that will give us all a moment to agree on something, for a change. The book aims to list and celebrate the tiny, subtle aspects of South African life that we all experience but don't always notice. Engler looks at icons of our shared South Africanness but drills a little deeper to make them more specific, a bit more ridiculous, a bit funnier, and hopefully to induce an excited exclamation from the reader of, "Yoh! That's so true!"

You’ll find them sipping an espresso with the Sunday Times open at the Zapiro cartoon, enjoying a Tashas Panini, with a MacBook Pro streaming a Foals album on the wi-fi. Or rocking a Bok jersey, Judron shorts and slops, braaiing out of the back of a Hilux double-cab in the car park at Loftus. They are all of these things and none of them. They are unique combinations of dozens of odd predilections. They are White People, and they are among us. They are few, but they are powerful. Learn the ways of whiteness and they will buy you biltong, take you to the cricket and help you download series that aren’t even showing here yet! Stuff South African White People Like is your guide to white people’s pantheon of greatness. Expensive sandwiches! MMA! Threatening to emigrate! It’s all here. Helen Zille! Madiba! Rodriguez! No icon is forgotten. Here’s a book that decodes, explains and advises on finding social success with people of the Caucasian persuasion. It also allows experienced white people to brush up on their whiteness and smirk knowingly. So kick back on your L-shaped leather couch, crack a craft beer and lose yourself in this guide to the variable whiteness of being.