185pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., LML Press, London, 2024

ISBN: 9781068649103

Emanuel Herman on growing up in a small, tightly knit, first-generation Polish-Jewish community in Cape Town in the '40s, '50s, and '60s. In 1966, aged 21, he left South Africa to study in the USA and has lived most of his life in Manhattan.

"Brief Hours and Weeks awakes many memories of Cape Town, the city of Emanuel Derman's youth and mine, as it was half a century ago. The chapter on the lonely Mrs Gold is a triumph." J.M, Coetzee, Nobel Laureate

"What a delight. It succeeds in writerly craft, narrative, evocation of people, times and places and - not least - in authorial courage and candor." James Grant, author of Bagehot: The life and times of the greatest Victorian

Emanuel Herman is Professor of Practice Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of the memoir My Life as a Quant (2004).

BRIEF HOURS AND WEEKS, my life as a Capetonian

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