{"product_id":"9780795701085","title":"Shadow Bird, by Willemien Le Roux (used)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSecond-hand copy — condition: good.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKwela Books, 2001. Paperback, 176 pages. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was starting to get dark, and the clouds were rolling in fast from the east. The little hut was small, but they moved inside because of the strong winds that sifted dust all over the fire and their circle in unexpected gusts. The hut gave a little shelter, but not much since the walls were not yet completely plastered with cow dung and mud. It had been difficult to get hold of enough dung lately, there were so many people around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the cramped, unplastered hut provides no real shelter to Qasa and her family, the twenty-first century offers no real hospitality to the San of southern Africa. The first people of this region, they find themselves pushed towards the edge of a universe to which their forebears believed there was no end, competing for the scant resources and little sympathy that still remain. Gone are the legendary days of roaming free in perfect harmony with bush and beast, heaven and earth, drought and abundance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom all over western Botswana the people of D'Kar have migrated to this small settlement with an unhappy history of its own - but some prospects for the future. This is where Shadow Bird is set, among people who each have a story to make you laugh or weep. There is Tix'ae, who with her young teenage friends experience the fun - and pain - of growing up in a way that is new to established traditions. Qasa, whose life changes irreversibly in a flash of lightning. Oom Jimmy, the white man who does not feel comfortable with his own people, and who becomes the patriarch of a large mixed family. Kelebetse, the black man with the red-skinned mother. And there are Turu and 'ane, forerunners in the struggle for political independence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kwela","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578529812738,"sku":"9780795701085","price":100.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/view_archive_4a069e8a-cd76-4e4b-9f2b-fddda9b992d7.jpg?v=1790946045","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/9780795701085","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}