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 Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
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 At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of Lusikisiki in the old Transkei lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. In the broader world, most would consider it entirely inconsequential.
It is to here that award-winning author Jonny Steinberg travels to explore the lives of a community caught up in a battle to survive the ravages of HIV/Aids. He befriends Sizwe, a young local man who runs a spaza shop who refuses to be tested for Aids despite the existence of a well-run testing and anti-retroviral programme. It is this apparent illogic that becomes the key to understanding the dynamics that thread their way through a complex and traditional rural community.
As Steinberg grapples to get closer to finding answers that remain maddeningly just out of reach, he realizes that he must look within himself to unravel certain riddles.
Following on from the huge critical success of Midlands and The Number, both of which won the Alan Paton Award, Steinberg has written another masterpiece which will be simultaneously released in the United States and South Africa.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jonny Steinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and received an MA in Politics from the University of the Witwatersrand. He continued his studies on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University's Balliol College, and completed a Doctorate in Philosophy (Politics) in 1999. He returned to South Africa and worked as a reporter and later senior writer at Business Day, a national daily newspaper, focusing on the South African Police Service, crime and the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He left Business Day in 2001 to research and write his first book, Midlands, but still writes a fortnightly column for the newspaper. In 2004 Steinberg published a second book, The Number. Both Midlands and The Number (both published by Jonathan Ball Publishers) were awarded the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, and Midlands also received the National Booksellers' Choice award.
Price R170
ISBN 978-1-86842-288-3
March 2008
Trade paperback
300pp
World rights
Category: Non-fiction
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