{"product_id":"how-to-be-a-revolutionary-9781839760877","title":"How to Be a Revolutionary","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of \u003ci\u003eESSENCE'\u003c\/i\u003es 9 South African Entertainers You Should Know\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt night, she hears the sound of typing, and then late one evening Zhao arrives at her door. They explore hidden Shanghai and discover a shared love of Langston Hughes--who had his own Chinese and African sojourns. But then Zhao vanishes, and a typewritten manuscript--chunk by chunk--appears at her doorstep instead. The truths unearthed in this manuscript cause her to reckon with her own past, and the long-buried story of what happened to Kay, her fearless, revolutionary friend... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConnecting contemporary Shanghai, late Apartheid-era South Africa, and China during the Great Leap Forward and the Tiananmen uprising--and refracting this globe-trotting and time-traveling through Hughes' confessional letters to a South African protege about the poet's time in Shanghai--\u003ci\u003eHow to Be a Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e is an amazingly ambitious novel. It's also a heartbreaking exploration of what we owe our countries, our consciences, and ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839760877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"C. a. Davids","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41521420206261,"sku":"9781839760877","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_62f8860d-ba57-42a4-9cee-e51895f0c3da.jpg?v=1641918482","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/how-to-be-a-revolutionary-9781839760877","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}