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THREE-LETTER PLAGUE
Non-Fiction (Narrative Non-fiction) 405 pages
Vintage - January 2009
US title: SIZWE’S TEST - A Washington Post Book of the Year 2008
Chosen as the first University of Johannesburg 'One Book One Library' title.
'A sensitive, moving and deeply intelligent exploration of ways in which individuals and institutions have responded to the catastrophe of AIDS in South Africa' -- JM Coetzee
'A powerful, poignant and personal story that gets under the skin of a terrifying epidemic.' -- Chris Cleave
‘A beautiful and perceptive book…Steinberg demonstrates how compellingly one can paint a picture of broader social structures and social change by zooming in on the private troubles, desires and yearnings of a single individual.’ -- Steven Epstein, The Nation
‘Vivid narrative non-fiction … Anyone who wants to understand the reality of life across swathes of southern Africa should read this elegiac account of Sizwe’s choice (it is published in the US as Sizwe’s Test.) They will be in turn captivated and dismayed.’ Alec Russell, Financial Times -
MIDLANDS
Non-Fiction (Narrative Non-fiction) 259 pages
Jonathan Ball (South Africa) - October 2003
Awarded the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize for non-fiction and Booksellers Choice 2003. In the hills of KwaZulu-Natal, a young white farmer is shot dead on his father’s farm. The work of assassins rather than robbers; a single shot, only his gun stolen, no cartridges or fingerprints left at the scene. The author examines an intriguing, unexplored world: a bewildered community of white farmers reeling from the loss of centuries of power; a generation of young black drifters, not yet fully urban, no longer fully rural, scavenging what they could from both the cities and villages.
Biography
Jonny Steinberg was born and bred in South Africa. His previous two books, MIDLANDS and THE NUMBER, both won South Africa's premier non-fiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize.
Steinberg was educated at Wits University in Johannesburg, and at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked as a journalist at a national daily, written scripts for television drama, and has been a consultant to the South African government on criminal justice policy.
Now writing a book on Liberian immigrants in New York, with UK rights already sold to Cape. Shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Main Prize.
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