RaveThe Telegraph India (IND)Steinberg’s book is subtitled Portrait of a Marriage. This is both entirely accurate as well as excessively modest. Their relationship as it evolved down the decades is depicted with sensitivity and authority, but always against the backdrop of the political and social history of the time. The characters of Nelson and Winnie come vividly alive, their struggles, sacrifices, anxieties and angularities narrated in depth and detail. However, Steinberg also presents evocative portraits of many other individuals ... Steinberg’s book is compellingly readable from the first page to the last, yet the sections which stand out most are those which deal with the twenty-seven years of Mandela’s incarceration ... Rigorously researched and beautifully written, Jonny Steinberg’s Winnie and Nelson is acutely insightful at both the personal and political levels. It is a brilliantly constructed portrait of a marriage, of a people, of a country, of a time.
