{"product_id":"this-day-and-age-paperback","title":"This Day and Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMike Nicol\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar, \u003ci\u003e This Day and Age\u003c\/i\u003e realizes the prophecy told to a newly elected president on the eve of his inauguration. After years of bountiful harmony will come plague and famine, during which a strange man-child with a Bible chained to his wrist and his army of the disenfranchised will gather strength in the most remote reaches of the land. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mike Nicol joins the roster . . . of Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and the magical realists of Latin America.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1951, \u003cb\u003eMike Nicol\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several novels, among them \u003ci\u003eHorseman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThis Day and Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Powers That Be\u003c\/i\u003e, and many works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eA Good-Looking Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Country\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Muizenberg, South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 8 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289401307385,"sku":"9780679742005","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/auMqGoTOP69780679742005.webp?v=1776263553","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/this-day-and-age-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}