{"product_id":"bird-monk-seding-lesego-rampolokeng-9780994710406","title":"Bird-Monk Seding","description":"\u003cp\u003eLesego Rampolokeng's third novel \u003cem\u003eBird-Monk Seding \u003c\/em\u003ewas awarded the 2017 \u003cstrong\u003eUniversity of Johannesburg Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e for South African Writing in English. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious \u003cem\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarry Ronge Fiction Prize \u003c\/strong\u003ein 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis place is called SEDING, short for Leseding, place of light. Quite ironic given the darkness throbbing at its core and spilling out bubbling in the blackest rage when least expected. Surrounded by farmland in all directions, it is a settlement of about 700 households crammed in tiny structures. Average 7 souls per hovel. It used to be made up of ramshackle corrugated iron shacks that seemed tossed down regardless of aesthetics. Then the new administration's housing programme kicked in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMan in the bush in quest of Bosman's ghost. Finding AWB rabidity. Tranquility so deep it kills. Hate hounds. Beneath the surface quiet, such racist rotten-heartedness. \u0026amp; children dying. Starvation abounds. Raw sewage in the water supply. Crap in the taps. Skin matters. Ancient white beards sexing black teens for tins, food exchange. The soul's impoverishment. The starved get their humanity halved. And weekends of sex-tourism. Alcoholic stares everywhere. Deep fear too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesego Rampolokeng's third novel\u003cem\u003e Bird-Monk Seding\u003c\/em\u003e is a stark picture of life in a rural township two decades into South Africa's democracy. Listening and observing in the streets and taverns, Bavino Sekete, often feeling desperate himself, is thrown back to his own violent childhood in Soweto. To get through, he turns to his pantheon of jazz innovators and radical writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lesego Rampolokeng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0994710402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780994710406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep South\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Lesego Rampolokeng","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483817652479,"sku":"9780994710406","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_298c2981-d49c-449e-a28a-1697a9bfa7b8.jpg?v=1778040788","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bird-monk-seding-lesego-rampolokeng-9780994710406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}