{"product_id":"house-gun-9781250007728","title":"House Gun","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe House Gun - A Powerful Examination of Violence and Family in Post-Apartheid South Africa\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary daily life. How else can you defend yourself against intruders and thieves in post-apartheid South Africa? The respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with \u003ci\u003esomething that could never happen to them\u003c\/i\u003e: Their son, Duncan, has murdered a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful and disturbing anatomy of a murder, Nadine Gordimer examines the effect of violence on the complicated web of love that holds together parents and children, friends and lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Nobel Prize Winner Nadine Gordimer\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was a Nobel Prize winner whose novels include the Booker Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Conservationist\u003c\/i\u003e, Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Pickup\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNo Time Like the Present\u003c\/i\u003e. Gordimer's short story collections include \u003ci\u003eLoot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJump and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She also published literary and political essay collections such as \u003ci\u003eLiving in Hope and History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGordimer was a vice president of PEN International and an executive member of the Congress of South African Writers. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Great Britain and a Commandeur of l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680839438610,"sku":"9781250007728","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52ccbc5f-7198-4968-9a34-07e5618f94b7.jpg?v=1733943687","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/house-gun-9781250007728","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}