{"product_id":"9780099535201","title":"Black Swan, by Christopher Hope (used)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSecond-hand copy — condition: good.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novella by South African writer Christopher Hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSouth Africa in the 1960s - the granite years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLucky is a dreamy teenager living in a large black township on the Highveld. He does not respond to ordinary school lessons - but one day sees a film of Swan Lake and watches in amazement these beings in white, as if from another planet, moving in time to the music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSo begins a personal odyssey that takes the boy away from his township, out of his home country altogether to a guerilla training camp in East Germany ... then back into South Africa on a bombing raid. He is captured and put on trial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBut through it all he carries with him his special dream of freedom which scandalises his friends and outrages his enemies. It is a vision of a magical place where anyone may become a swan and death itself is outdanced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArrow, 1988.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48223976489218,"sku":"9780099535201","price":80.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/9780099535201.heic?v=1785072573","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/9780099535201","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}