{"product_id":"johannesburg","title":"Johannesburg","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 December 2013.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for her mother's eightieth birthday. She is determined with lists and meals and flower arrangements to show that she has become a fully capable woman. She knows deep down her mother will only ever see a lost cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile outside crowds of citizens and the world's media have gathered to hear the expected announcement: Nelson Mandela has died. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Set across the course of a single momentous day and narrated by a chorus of voices Fiona Melrose's second novel is a hymn to an extraordinary city and its people an ambitious homage to Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e and a devastating personal and political manifesto on mothers and daughters justice and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully observed' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Woolf produced blooms that are impossible to emulate. \u003ci\u003eJohannesburg\u003c\/i\u003e provides evidence of a novelist who can grow inimitable flowers herself' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791146086579,"sku":"9781472152862","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478115419781472152862.jpg?v=1762852514","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/johannesburg","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}