{"product_id":"cruel-crazy-beautiful-world-9781480417816","title":"Cruel Crazy Beautiful World","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo characters navigate the post-apartheid South African landscape in this haunting story of the injustice that still simmers below the country's surface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIn Troy Blacklaws's ambitious novel, the lives of two African men run parallel, exposing the tensions that rumble at South Africa's post-apartheid core. Jerusalem is a young poet and student whose stubborn father will no longer pay for his rambling studies. Half Jewish, half Muslim, Jerusalem is forced from Cape Town to a distant harbor village by his father, who believes a stint selling curios to tourists will right his wandering ways. Meanwhile, Jabulani loses his teaching job in Zimbabwe after mocking President Mugabe and must move south to start a new life. But his life across the border is tainted by the harsh truth that racism isn't gone; it's just taken another form. As the two men's lives merge, their stories reveal the paradoxes of the South African experience. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Road Integrated Media LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781480417816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d","brand":"Troy Blacklaws","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43505841537205,"sku":"9781480417816","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f695068f-a8e6-409d-aeda-c6bbb22660ec.jpg?v=1705424941","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cruel-crazy-beautiful-world-9781480417816","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}