{"product_id":"9781935744511","title":"Mafeking Road","description":"These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit and clear- sighted judgment. Spun by the plainclothes local visionary and storyteller Oom Shalk Lourens, these moving and satirical glimpses of lethargic herdsmen, ambitious concertina players, legendary leopards and mambas, and love-struck dreamers lay bare immense emotions, contradictions, and mysteries within the smallest movements and unadorned talk of the Groot Marico District. Leading oral tradition by the hand into a territory all his own, Bosman maps a world at once lucid and layered, distant yet powerfully familiar.","brand":"Steerforth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141360566512,"sku":"9781935744511","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935744511_p0.jpg?v=1763656655","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935744511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}