{"product_id":"cape-town-a-place-between-9781946395252","title":"Cape Town: A Place Between","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCape Town is a place between. Between two oceans, between first and third worlds, between east and west. So too the majority of its citizens, a people between black and white, native and settler, African and European. The Cape coloureds. This tween-ness complicates and perplexes. It threatens key conceptions we have about the histories, identities, and cultures of those who live on the continent. It makes us wonder how we can understand a city that is most assuredly in Africa, though not—seemingly—of it?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBy exploring these liminal spaces of tween-ness—between the Cape’s breath-taking beauty and its shattering violence, between its creative cosmopolitanism and its crude racial divisions, between its glitzy wealth and its grinding poverty—we can begin to understand the soul of this town. Haunted by its past, unsure of its future. Always emerging, never arriving. A sun-drenched peninsula best viewed through a prism noir.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCompact and concise, this book allows readers to quickly identify the unique pulse of the city, its throbbing historical, social, cultural and political beat that underlies the transactions between all Capetonians. It is not a guidebook, but a perfect companion to one, filling in the intimate details that other books leave out.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWritten in accessible, punchy prose, \u003ci\u003eCape Town: A Place Between\u003c\/i\u003e offers a portrait rendered with humor, wit and passion, based on the author’s twenty-year relationship with the Cape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Incorporating elements of memoir, guide book, socio-political history and travelogue, Trotter tells a compelling story and captures the essence of what makes the Mother City so irresistible on the one hand, and so impossible to grasp on the other.\" —Karina Szczurek, Cape Times","brand":"Catalyst Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49536361005399,"sku":"9781946395252","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781946395252.jpg?v=1731902071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cape-town-a-place-between-9781946395252","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}