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Three Letter Plague: A Young Man´s Journey Through a Great Epidemic
Jonny Steinberg
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Description for Three Letter Plague: A Young Man´s Journey Through a Great Epidemic
Paperback. At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. This title explores the lives of a community caught up in a battle to survive the ravages of the plague, the African AIDS epidemic. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. 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 the greatest plague of our times, the African AIDS epidemic. He befriends Sizwe, a young local man who refuses to be tested for AIDS despite the existence of a well-run ... Read more
At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. 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 the greatest plague of our times, the African AIDS epidemic. He befriends Sizwe, a young local man who refuses to be tested for AIDS despite the existence of a well-run ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099524199
SKU
V9780099524199
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About Jonny Steinberg
Jonny Steinberg was born and bred in South Africa. He is the author of critically acclaimed Three Letter Plague, published by Vintage, Little Liberia, Midlands and The Number, which both won South Africa's premier non-fiction literary award and the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize. Steinberg was educated at Wits University in Johannesburg, and at Oxford University, where he was a ... Read more
Reviews for Three Letter Plague: A Young Man´s Journey Through a Great Epidemic
This forceful narrative, with sharp insights and value...has to do with the immense power of stigma, the ways in which we mirror the real or imagined condemnation of others, and of how easily stigma becomes entwined with sexuality
New York Times
Writing with tenderness and authority, Steinberg skilfully manoeuvres past the prejudice that so often muddles ... Read more
New York Times
Writing with tenderness and authority, Steinberg skilfully manoeuvres past the prejudice that so often muddles ... Read more