{"product_id":"a-walk-in-the-night-alex-la-guma-9780810101395","title":"A Walk in the Night and Other Stories","description":"In the title story, in a Cape Town shantytown called District Six in the 1960s, Michael Adonis has lost his job at a metal sheet factory after an argument with a white supervisor. Illuminating the toxic effects of poverty, police brutality, and violence, the book paints a stark and unforgettable portrait of Adonis's emotional and physical destruction in apartheid South Africa. These works reveal the plight of non-whites in apartheid South Africa, laying bare the lives of the poor and the outcasts who filled the ghettoes and shantytowns. \u003cbr\u003e Of French and Malagasy stock, involved in South African politics from an early age, Alex La Guma was arrested for treason with 155 others in 1956 and finally acquitted in 1960. During the State of Emergency following the Sharpeville massacre he was detained for five months. Continuing to write, he endured house arrest and solitary confinement. La Guma left South Africa as a refugee in 1966 and lived in exile in London and Havana. He died in 1986. \u003ci\u003eA Walk in the Night and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e reveals La Guma as one of the most important African writers of his time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex La Guma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810101394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810101395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 5.06w x 0.45d","brand":"Alex La Guma","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047792898303,"sku":"9780810101395","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c6a6ce6-f909-40ad-ad50-5b09e4a49890.jpg?v=1684992206","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-walk-in-the-night-alex-la-guma-9780810101395","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}