{"product_id":"out-of-the-dead-lands","title":"Out of the Dead Lands","description":"\u003cp\u003eCephus Twala is dying. During his final moments he foresees the arrival of a descendant of his, a man not yet born, January Twala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Botes, one-time apartheid apparatchik, cannot reach her son. During her anxious marshalling of a home bent on disrepair, she’s attacked by an intruder who wants only to suck on her finger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Steven Moyo, environmental refugee and soft-hearted Red Ant, has resolved to seek out the strange squatter who claims to have walked from a fading future to save a neglected past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of the Dead Lands is a novel about remembering and forgetting. It’s a ghost story set in a Johannesburg out of kilter with itself. Those from the future and the past wander through the present, disconnected from their places in time, or forced (it seems) into asylum by a neglect that threatens their likelihood of ever properly existing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mirari Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44680943239344,"sku":"9781067245955","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/9181\/8160\/files\/9781067245955.jpg?v=1755171473","url":"https:\/\/www.mzansibooks.co.za\/products\/out-of-the-dead-lands","provider":"Mzansi Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}