{"product_id":"charl-pierre-naude-the-equality-of-shadows-2024-paperback","title":"Charl-Pierre Naude: The Equality of Shadows [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen an unusual building appeared overnight in a remote northern Cape community in the 1970s, and disappeared a few weeks later, it seemed to point to a series of baffling existential overlaps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome individuals claimed that occasionally they found themselves on the other side of a restive civil war divide, in identity embodiments that were highly contrary versions of themselves. In other cases, absurd social situations seemed to mock 'normal reality' by alternating with it. When a small-town journalist reported on the events, his quiet life became cruelly disrupted by unwanted attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere these accounts imagined or real? Real enough to the eyewitnesses. Traumatised and adrift, the journalist later wrote up his story in reportage style when a childhood friend invited him to recuperate on her farm. He believed he had narrowly escaped the disappearance of an entire region - a place nobody has ever heard of - and its people, including the love of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the mystery unfolds, with an aura of retrieved memory, the narrator's lost love becomes an increasingly evocative presence. \u003cem\u003eThe Equality of Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling novel - in some places uproariously funny, in others filled with deep pathos - about the vagaries of identity, love and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naude, Charl-Pierre","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52085403418963,"sku":"9781770109124","price":14.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52085403386195,"sku":"XV81770109124","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/naude-charl-pierre-charl-pierre-naude-the-equality-of-shadows-2024-paperback-1196975968.jpg?v=1760049918","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/charl-pierre-naude-the-equality-of-shadows-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}