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by Van Der Leun, Justine | HC | VeryGood
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“Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ...
Binding
Hardcover
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780812994506
Book Title
We Are Not Such Things : The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
Item Length
9.6in
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year
2016
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2in
Author
Justine Van Der Leun
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Law, History, Social Science
Topic
Murder / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, General, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Legal History
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
Number of Pages
544 Pages

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Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class--a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial "Timely . . . gripping, explosive . . . the kind of obsessive forensic investigation--of the clues, and into the soul of society--that is the legacy of highbrow sleuths from Truman Capote to Janet Malcolm." -- The New York Times Book Review The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa: The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, 1993, during the final, fiery days of apartheid by a mob of young black men in a township outside Cape Town. Her parents' forgiveness of two of her killers became a symbol of the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa. Justine van der Leun decided to introduce the story to an American audience. But as she delved into the case, the prevailing narrative started to unravel. Why didn't the eyewitness reports agree on who killed Amy Biehl? Were the men convicted of the murder actually responsible for her death? And then van der Leun stumbled upon another brutal crime committed on the same day, in the very same area. The true story of Amy Biehl's death, it turned out, was not only a story of forgiveness but a reflection of the complicated history of a troubled country. We Are Not Such Things is the result of van der Leun's four-year investigation into this strange, knotted tale of injustice, violence, and compassion. The bizarre twists and turns of this case and its aftermath--and the story that emerges of what happened on that fateful day in 1993 and in the decades that followed--come together in an unsparing account of life in South Africa today. Van der Leun immerses herself in the lives of her subjects and paints a stark, moving portrait of a township and its residents. We come to understand that the issues at the heart of her investigation are universal in scope and powerful in resonance. We Are Not Such Things reveals how reconciliation is impossible without an acknowledgment of the past, a lesson as relevant to America today as to a South Africa still struggling with the long shadow of its history. "A masterpiece of reported nonfiction . . . Justine van der Leun's account of a South African murder is destined to be a classic."-- Newsday

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812994507
ISBN-13
9780812994506
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219199599

Product Key Features

Book Title
We Are Not Such Things : The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
Author
Justine Van Der Leun
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, General, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Legal History
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Law, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
544 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Dt1974.2.V35 2016
Reviews
"This suspenseful and engrossing story calls into question the simplicities people yearn for when justice is sought for a vicious crime. Justine van der Leun shows how a powerful desire for reconciliation can in fact obscure the truth, a truth we need in order to establish the equity and justice that all people deserve." --Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black "What an achievement! This absorbing account of the pursuit of the truth about an infamous and symbolic crime is consummate in its reach and penetration. The great undying issues in moral forensics are here: forgiveness, reparation, restorative justice, the role of untruth. The human portraiture, the included capsules of relevant history, the evocation of real life in the townships of the Cape--all are superbly done. The word brilliant applies to all aspects of the book. This unsparing but compassionate work will enlighten and shake its readers." --Norman Rush, author of Mating   "This is a murder story told with the dramatic tension of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the precision of the very best nonfiction reporting. Justine van der Leun obsessively investigated the killing of twenty-six-year-old American Amy Biehl during the waning days of South African apartheid. Van der Leun takes her readers on hair-raising excursions into the mazes of backyard shacks where Biehl's killers were raised and into the often-absurd world of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Each page bursts with fresh insights into the contradictions of modern-day South Africa as well as the elusiveness of finding the absolute truth." --Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy and Logavina Street   "Justine van der Leun's We Are Not Such Things is a fascinating, clear-eyed journey into the disheartening political reality of contemporary South Africa. In her pursuit of the facts behind a decades-old murder, she shatters convenient narratives about the end of apartheid and the nature of justice, and proceeds on a headlong chase for deeper truths, even those that recede the closer she gets to them. Along the way, she lays bare the relationship between legal and political truths, and takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride into the depths of the reporting process itself, exposing both the perils, and the necessity, of truth-seeking." --Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside   "This is a troubling, deeply felt piece of work. Van der Leun's excellent reportage reveals that things are not what they seem in South Africa. The book is proof that apartheid has left behind a league of ghosts, Amy Biehl among them, and that the South Africa that Nelson Mandela envisioned remains a distant dream." --James McBride, author of Kill 'Em and Leave   " We Are Not Such Things grants the reader an extraordinary and profound privilege: the capacity to inhabit fully a place, a history, a moment, a human heart. This is not just fine journalism but astonishing storytelling, and it is why we read. Justine van der Leun brings to the page a rare combination of muscular reporting, limitless curiosity, soulful vision, courage, and tenderness. She ceaselessly questions both herself and others. Through her gifts, you will feel as if you have traveled deep into a country you only thought you knew--South Africa--and become intimate with people in their most vulnerable, strange, and beautiful moments. Like all the most impactful journeys one undertakes in life, you won't want to let go of this one, ever." --Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, "What an achievement! This absorbing account of the pursuit of the truth about an infamous and symbolic crime is consummate in its reach and penetration. The great undying issues in moral forensics are here: forgiveness, reparation, restorative justice, the role of untruth. The human portraiture, the included capsules of relevant history, the evocation of real life in the townships of the Cape--all are superbly done. The word brilliant applies to all aspects of the book. This unsparing but compassionate work will enlighten and shake its readers." --Norman Rush
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-045138
Dewey Decimal
305.8009687355
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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