{"product_id":"playing-in-the-light-a-novel-9781595580474","title":"Playing in the Light: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlaying in the Light: A Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e by Wicomb, Zoe. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781595580474.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed South African novelist, a lyrical tale of self-discovery in post-apartheid cape town.\n\nSet in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Playing in the Light revolves around Marion, a woman of Afrikaner background, who hates traveling but nonetheless runs a travel agency, and her complex relationship with Brenda, the first black woman she has ever employed.\n\nIn writing as finely detailed and attuned to psychological nuance as Anita Brookners, Wicomb depicts the life of a complicated, single woman in a changing and complicated place. Caught up in the narrow world of private interests and self-advancement, Marion eschews national politics until the exposures of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission lead to the discovery of a skeleton in the family cupboard. While her aging father is unable and unwilling to supply the truth, Marions young employee becomes implicated in the piecing together of Marions past, leading to a defining transformation and widening of Marions world.\n\nIn this impeccably wrought new work, the acclaimed author of You Cant Get Lost in Cape Town provides wisdom and insight about the new South Africa and about people everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116141305909,"sku":"ByrdShop_1595580476","price":58.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781595580474_e402ad74-6f9a-427e-ab62-08d39810564f.jpg?v=1781365810","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/playing-in-the-light-a-novel-9781595580474","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}