We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation

by Justine van der Leun

Book Overview

Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class--a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial "Timely . . . gripping, explosive . . . the kind of obsessive forensic investigation--of the clues, and into the soul of society--that is the legacy of highbrow sleuths from Truman Capote...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812994507
• ISBN13: 9780812994506
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"