{"product_id":"9781779221858","title":"Absent. The English Teacher: The English Teacher","description":"When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo,  his pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato.  When he backs his uninsured white Ford Escort into a brand new Mercedes Benz, the out-of-court settlement sees him giving up his house to the complainant, Beauticious Nyamayakanuna, and becoming her domestic servant. Through the prism of this engaging post-colonial role reversal, and spiced with George s lessons on Shakespeare, John Eppel draws down the curtain on one particular white man in Africa. But before it s time to go, George will delight us with the antics of his literature classes; his various arrests   all timed to coincide with the police chief s need for help with essays on Hamlet and A Grain of Wheat; his keen eye for flora and fauna; and the long trek back through the hundred years of his family s Zimbabwean past, as he returns an abandoned child to her home. Eppel has satirized the racial politics of southern Africa in many of his previous novels. In Absent: The English Teacher he turns his gaze inwards for a generous and richly rewarding parody of the land of his birth.","brand":"Weaver Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47301003346160,"sku":"9781779221858","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781779221858_p0.jpg?v=1763710620","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781779221858","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}