{"product_id":"this-day-and-age-isbn-9780679742005","title":"This Day and Age","description":"With tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar,\u003ci\u003e This Day and Age\u003c\/i\u003e realizes the prophecy told to a newly elected president on the eve of his inauguration. After years of bountiful harmony will come plague and famine, during which a strange man-child with a Bible chained to his wrist and his army of the disenfranchised will gather strength in the most remote reaches of the land.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Mike Nicol joins the roster . . . of Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and the magical realists of Latin America.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eBorn in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1951, \u003cb\u003eMike Nicol\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several novels, among them \u003ci\u003eHorseman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThis Day and Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Powers That Be\u003c\/i\u003e, and many works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eA Good-Looking Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Country\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Muizenberg, South Africa.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301794861285,"sku":"NP9780679742005","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679742005.jpg?v=1767742471","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/this-day-and-age-isbn-9780679742005","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}