{"product_id":"mother-land-faraaz-mahomed-9781960803528","title":"Mother \/ Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn apparition of his deceased mother appears to law professor, Salim Bardien, in New York on the same day that a massive student protest movement erupts in Cape Town. She comes to foretell a revelation, an invisible stain for him to clean. The news itself--that Salim's birth was the product of his mother's illicit affair with a white politician in 1960s South Africa--comes from a newly found half-sister, Bertha. Yet more disorder follows when Bertha reveals that their brother is dying of cancer, and that Salim's bone marrow may be the only hope of saving him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can one secret alter--or even redeem--a life? How strong are familial bonds across distances and generations? And how do the struggles of another era echo those of today? As Salim, now a husband and father, wrestles with these questions in the present, his mother Sawligha's forbidden love story unfolds in the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet between New York and Cape Town--across eras spanning apartheid's forced removals and the rise of Black Lives Matter--and moving through lives, deaths, and the liminal spaces between, Mother\/Land is the story of family, and of the world we inherit from those that came before us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Faraaz Mahomed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1960803522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781960803528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catalyst Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Faraaz Mahomed","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579542978815,"sku":"9781960803528","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2f4f7c64-b134-4c9d-8d69-78bd14c097e5.jpg?v=1763874916","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mother-land-faraaz-mahomed-9781960803528","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}