{"product_id":"9781558613980","title":"David's Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1987 publication of \u003ci\u003eYou Can't Get Lost in Cape Town\u003c\/i\u003e won Zoë Wicomb an international readership and wide critical acclaim. As richly imagined and stylistically innovative as Wicomb's debut work, \u003ci\u003eDavid's Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing novel, multilayered and multivoiced, at times elegiac, wry, and expansive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding in South Africa at the moment of Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1991, the novel explores the life and vision of David Dirkse, part of the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement—a world seldom revealed to outsiders. With \"time to think\" after the unbanning of the movement, David is researching his roots in the history of the mixed-race \"Coloured\" people of South Africa and of their antecedents among the indigenous people and early colonial settlers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut David soon learns that he is on a hit list, and, caught in a web of betrayal and surveillance, he is forced to rethink his role in the struggle for \"nonracial democracy,\" the loyalty of his \"comrades,\" and his own conceptions of freedom. Through voices and stories of David and the women who surround him—responding to, illuminating, and sometimes contradicting one another—Wicomb offers a moving exploration of the nature of political vision, memory, and truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press at CUNY, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053693255920,"sku":"9781558613980","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781558613980_p0.jpg?v=1763758057","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781558613980","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}