{"product_id":"the-inheritors-an-intimate-portrait-of-south-africas-racial-reckoning-9781476725246","title":"The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eve Fairbanks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Race \u0026amp; Ethnic Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dozen years in the making, \u003ci\u003e The Inheritors\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ein a sweeping and exquisite look at what \u003ci\u003ereally \u003c\/i\u003ehappens when a country resolves to end white supremacy. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDipuo grew up on the south side of a mine dump that segregated Johannesburg's black townships from the white-only city. Some nights, she hiked to the top. To a South African teenager in the 1980s\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eeven an anti-apartheid activist like Dipuo\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethe divide that separated her from the glittering lights on the other side appeared eternal. But in 1994, the world's last explicit racial segregationist regime collapsed to make way for something unprecedented. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith penetrating psychological insight, intimate reporting, and bewitching prose, \u003ci\u003e The Inheritors \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a country in the throes of a great reckoning. Through the lives of Dipuo, her daughter Malaika, and Christo\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eone of the last white South Africans drafted to fight for the apartheid regime\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eaward-winning journalist Eve Fairbanks probes what happens when people once locked into certain kinds of power relations find their status shifting. Observing subtle truths about race and power that extend well beyond national borders, she explores questions that preoccupy so many of us today: How can we let go of our pasts, as individuals and as countries? How should historical debts be paid? And how can a person live an honorable life in a society that\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003efor better or worse\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethey no longer recognize?","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45848520818839,"sku":"9781476725246","price":2557.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781476725246.webp?v=1769298132","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-inheritors-an-intimate-portrait-of-south-africas-racial-reckoning-9781476725246","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}