{"product_id":"search-sweet-country","title":"Search Sweet Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA startling, densely poetic portrait of 1970s Ghana as it emerges from colonial rule.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSearch Sweet Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows the lives of an eclectic, interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid-1970s. Bringing the city to life in dizzying, lyrical prose, Laing weaves a story filled with bizarre and often melancholy characters- an idealistic professor, a lovely young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician and his hack sidekick, a business-savvy young woman, a healer, a bishop and a crazy man intent on founding his own village. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir collective narratives create a portrait of a country where colonialism is dying, but democracy remains elusive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSearch Sweet Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a timeless, near-forgotten gem by a virtuosic writer, as necessary now as when the book was first published. Like Joyce's Dublin and Dickens's London, Laing's Accra brims with both lush specificity and universal relevance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53409424343354,"sku":"9780241370094","price":33.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/9780241370094.jpg?v=1777939808","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/search-sweet-country","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}