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New York. 1980. Taplinger. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 080084405x. 182 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Ivy Strick. keywords: Literature South Africa Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In this searching, emotionally charged novel, Sheila Roberts gives us a wonderfully rich picture of what it is like to be white and young in South Africa today. Myra Shepherd, a school teacher, sensitive and tolerant of all men, wants the best for everyone only to find herself cruelly buffeted by the tension-torn world around her. Myra tries to give her love and loyalty to Darrell, an embittered political activist who rejects her as a woman and derides her as a ‘mere liberal. ' This earlier and doomed affair is skillfully and economically interwoven with scenes of Myra and her new lover Dawie, a sensual, easy-going Afrikaner, during a critical summer of her life. And charming Dawie with his unthinking acceptance of things as they are also bears the seeds of destruction. Myra, gentle and loving, is never destined to change the world. At best she can keep a small spark of sanity glowing for herself and others-if she is ever given the chance. But Sheila Roberts, with acuity and compassion, shows that people like Myra do not have that chance in present-day South Africa. It is this sense of inevitability that gives Johannesburg Requiem its sustained power inventory #6295.