{"product_id":"mother-land-1","title":"Mother\/Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn apparition of his deceased mother appears to law professor, Salim Bardien, in New York on the same day that a massive student protest movement erupts in Cape Town. She comes to foretell a revelation, an invisible stain for him to clean. The news itself-that Salim's birth was the product of his mother's illicit affair with a white politician in 1960s South Africa-comes from a newly found half-sister, Bertha. Yet more disorder follows when Bertha reveals that their brother is dying of cancer, and that Salim's bone marrow may be the only hope of saving him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow can one secret alter-or even redeem-a life? How strong are familial bonds across distances and generations? And how do the struggles of another era echo those of today? As Salim, now a husband and father, wrestles with these questions in the present, his mother Sawligha's forbidden love story unfolds in the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet between New York and Cape Town-across eras spanning apartheid's forced removals and the rise of Black Lives Matter-and moving through lives, deaths, and the liminal spaces between, \u003ci\u003eMother\/Land\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of family, and of the world we inherit from those that came before us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faraaz Mahomed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525580492978,"sku":"9781960803528","price":320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781960803528.jpg?v=1790175136","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/mother-land-1","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}