{"product_id":"january-sun-one-day-three-lives-a-south-african-town-9781439195147","title":"January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, a South African Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Stengel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Africa - South - Republic of South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning portrait of a town in the apartheid South Africa of 20 years ago, and with a new introduction telling what has happened in South Africa and that town in the intervening years, a chronicle that earned the author an invitation from the imprisoned Nelson Mandela to collaborate with him on his autobiography.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Stengel journeyed to South Africa in the late 1980s to chronicle life under apartheid. He ended up spending months in a small rural town where the white authorities were attempting to forcibly remove a black township. He tells this moving story through the lives of three families--one white, one black, one Indian--over the course of a single day for each of them. The private lives of each family reveal what it was like to live in a society where everyone is judged by the color of his or her skin.​ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStengel reveals the hopes and dreams of each of these families, and their resilient optimism about the future. In a new introduction, Stengel describes how some of those hopes even came to pass with the eventual release of Nelson Mandela and the election of the country's first truly democratic government.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45410877898903,"sku":"9781439195147","price":1205.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781439195147.webp?v=1767443407","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/january-sun-one-day-three-lives-a-south-african-town-9781439195147","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}