{"product_id":"we-belong-to-the-trees-a-novel","title":"We Belong to the Trees: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this multi-layered debut novel, Keletso Mopai dives into the world of post-apartheid South Africa in a small town, where a devastating act of racial violence shocks the community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a farm in Tzaneen, an Afrikaner town in Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, Maluka, a young Black security guard, steps into trouble with the family for whom he works. Set against the backdrop of a post-Mandela, multi-racial South Africa in the mid-1990s, this novel follows a range of characters whose different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds inform how they contend with the fallout of the tragedy and how it ripples down a generation. We meet Maluka’s younger brother Solly; the farm’s matron Sunette, who suffers at the hands of her violent husband; Maluka’s beloved Cola, a young spiritualist, who is pregnant with his child; and many more memorable characters. As secrets and resentments come to light, relationships are put under pressure, illuminating the complex and simmering tensions that define this community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exquisite and wide-ranging debut, We Belong to the Trees offers an utterly original vision of post-apartheid South Africa, one that grapples with the freedom from the old apartheid realities and the yet-unrealized promised land of self-empowerment and equity the nation had long yearned for. The effects of exploitation, poverty, racism, and greed converge in a small town to tell the tale of a nation still grappling with the wounds of a violent history that is more than a recent memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53777348591923,"sku":"9781644215838","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/1108\/1267\/files\/9781644215838.jpg?v=1785546659","url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/we-belong-to-the-trees-a-novel","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}