A Blade of Grass Author:Lewis DeSoto "Out of the crucible of raw emotion that was apartheid South Africa. DeSoto has plucked a doomed friendship and, in prose that is deceptively spare, describes the arc of its tenderness and terror in a world of mad violence. A lovely achievement that resonates far beyond its setting." — --Marq De Villiers, author of Water and Into Africa: A Journe... more »y Through Ancient Empires« less