{"product_id":"sizwes-test-a-young-mans-journey-through-africas-aids-epidemic-9781416552703","title":"Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic","description":"At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide decent treatment, people will come and get it, no matter their circumstances. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sizwe and Hermann live at the epicenter of the greatest plague of our times, the African AIDS epidemic. In South Africa alone, nearly 6 million people in a population of 46 million are HIV-positive. Already, Sizwe has watched several neighbors grow ill and die, yet he himself has pushed AIDS to the margins of his life and associates it obliquely with other people's envy, with comeuppance, and with misfortune. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Hermann Reuter establishes an antiretroviral treatment program in Sizwe's district and Sizwe discovers that close family members have the virus, the antagonism between these two figures from very different worlds -- one afraid that people will turn their backs on medical care, the other fearful of the advent of a world in which respect for traditional ways has been lost and privacy has been obliterated -- mirrors a continent-wide battle against an epidemic that has corrupted souls as much as bodies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A heartbreaking tale of shame and pride, sex and death, and a continent's battle with its demons, Steinberg's searing account is a tour-de-force of literary journalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteinberg, Jonny:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJonny Steinberg\u003c\/b\u003e was born and bred in South Africa. His previous two books, \u003ci\u003eMidlands\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003eThe Number\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) both won South Africa's premier nonfiction literary award, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Alan Paton Prize. Steinberg was educated at Wits University in Johannesburg, and at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked as a journalist at a national daily, written scripts for television drama, and has been a consultant to the South African government on criminal justice policy. He is currently writing a book about immigrants in New York.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199308431634,"sku":"9781416552703","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a63a462-9869-4fdd-82eb-1878f13b844a.jpg?v=1744874232","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sizwes-test-a-young-mans-journey-through-africas-aids-epidemic-9781416552703","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}