{"product_id":"transformations-essays-9781415201381","title":"Transformations: Essays","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Umuzi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished: 2012\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 169\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9781415201381\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSynopsis: What does Playboy have to do with Nabokov's infamous novel Lolita and his obsession with a butterfly? Why is Shrien Dewani looking so cheap? And what can Ovid's Metamorphosis show us about contemporary South African society? Imraan Coovadia's Transformations is a collection of short pieces in the tradition of the essayist: exciting, probing, intelligent and readable. The essays are on writing, politics and culture from a South African perspective. Written with his signature wit, and with subjects ranging from vuvuzelas to J M Coetzee, Tolstoy to Mbeki, Coovadia's essays cast a wide net and, li.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"LOCAL FICTION","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040262947063,"sku":"9781415201381","price":266.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/3973\/5543\/files\/23952923482691.jpg?v=1787779744","url":"https:\/\/www.2027textbooks.co.za\/products\/transformations-essays-9781415201381","provider":"2027Textbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}