{"product_id":"club-balafon-9798987808108","title":"Club Balafon","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's urban Africa: a world of French cars, Lebanese hardware stores, and American movies, not jungle and savannah-and of working-class Africans, not rich white men on safari. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's an off-beat, violent, darkly comic window onto post-colonial Africa and the children of expatriates on a single day in a West African city in the 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder its Elmore Leonard caper-gone-wrong thriller surface it's an examination, closer to V. S. Naipaul or Athol Fugard, of the changing and unchanging tragicomic rules of life for both Black men and White adolescents in newly independent but recently colonial Africa. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's an abandoned nightclub at the top of an isolated hill overlooking the city: the Club Balafon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14389824\"\u003eStuart Gelzer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bertie Stanhope Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798987808108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8987808106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bertie Stanhope Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44454176358637,"sku":"8987808106","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_21a5f529-d04a-4a24-ba20-3bde8d394e1b.jpg?v=1700373788","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/club-balafon-9798987808108","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}