{"id":528,"date":"2019-01-14T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T01:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2019-01-28T15:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:13:19","slug":"synopsis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/chapter-1\/synopsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>Guilt, hate, love and <\/strong><strong>redemption under African skies. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-166 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2016\/04\/The-Afrikaner-Cover-copy-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2016\/04\/The-Afrikaner-Cover-copy-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2016\/04\/The-Afrikaner-Cover-copy.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A paleoanthropologist at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, Zoe Du Plessis\u2019s world collapses when her lover and colleague, Dario Oldani, is killed during a fatal carjacking. Clinging to her late companion\u2019s memory, Zoe sets off to the merciless Kalahari Desert to continue his fieldwork.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the beginning of an inner journey during which she gets to come to terms with a rising sense of guilt as a privileged white Afrikaner while also confronting a secret that has hung over her family for generations.<\/p>\n<p>Meaningful encounters with an aged Bushman, a legendary writer with a troubled past, and a veteran of the Border War will reshape her sense of identity.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion spirals the reader into a new perspective, where atonement seems to be inextricably linked to an act of creative imagination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guilt, hate, love and redemption under African skies. A paleoanthropologist at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, Zoe Du Plessis\u2019s world collapses when her lover and colleague, Dario Oldani, is killed during a fatal carjacking. Clinging to her late companion\u2019s memory, Zoe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/chapter-1\/synopsis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27332,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions\/679"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}