{"product_id":"brief-hours-and-weeks-emanuel-derman-9781068649103","title":"Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrief Hours and Weeks is the author's account of growing up in a small, tightly knit, first-generation Polish-Jewish community in Cape Town in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObserving through at first naive and then later more sophisticated eyes, he describes his childhood and youth in a protective off-the-boat immigrant Jewish family in very British-Commonwealth South Africa as apartheid becomes increasingly coercive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough vivid and candid personal stories, he brings to life a time, place, culture, people, and set of mores that no longer exist. At 21, he leaves Africa to study in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emanuel Derman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1068649100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781068649103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LML Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Emanuel Derman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46526731157759,"sku":"9781068649103","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9fcc329c-28f1-4129-9786-85d341f2c88f.jpg?v=1737557014","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brief-hours-and-weeks-emanuel-derman-9781068649103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}