{"product_id":"crooked-seeds-hardcover","title":"Crooked Seeds - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Jennings\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt--from the Booker Prize-longlisted author of \u003ci\u003eAn Island\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Extraordinary . . . unputdownable.\"--Roddy Doyle \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCape Town, 2028\u003c\/i\u003e. The land cracks from a years-long drought, the nearby mountains threaten to burn, and the queue for the water trucks grows ever longer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her crumbling corner of a public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper Deidre with questions: \u003ci\u003eWas your brother a member of a pro-apartheid group in the 1990s? Is it true that he was building bombs as part of a terrorist plot?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeidre doesn't know the answers to the detectives' questions. All she knows is that she was denied--repeatedly--the life she felt she deserved. Overshadowed by her brother, then left behind by her daughter after she emigrated, Deidre must watch over her aging mother and make do with government help and the fading generosity of her neighbors while the landscape around her grows more and more combustible. As alarming evidence from the investigation continues to surface, and detectives pressure her to share what she knows of her family's disturbing past, Deidre must finally face her own shattered memories so that something better might emerge for her and her country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn exquisitely spare prose, Karen Jennings weaves a singularly powerful novel about post-apartheid South Africa. It is an unforgettable, propulsive story of fractured families, collective guilt, the ways we become trapped in prisons of our own making, and how we can begin to break free.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Jennings \u003c\/b\u003eis a South African writer whose novel \u003ci\u003eAn Island\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the Booker Prize. She lives in Cape Town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.6 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748837458208,"sku":"9780593597125","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ee026ea64216691a608dac4c158120cc.webp?v=1779917681","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/crooked-seeds-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}