{"product_id":"we-belong-to-the-trees","title":"[Releasing Nov 17, 2026] We Belong to the Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this multi-layered debut novel, Keletso Mopai dives into the world of post-apartheid South Africa in a small town, where a devastating act of racial violence shocks the community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet against the backdrop of a post-Mandela, multi-racial South Africa in the mid-1990s, this novel follows a range of characters whose different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds inform how they contend with the fallout of the tragedy and how it ripples down a generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a farm in Tzaneen, an Afrikaner town in Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, Maluka, a young Black security guard, steps into trouble with the family for whom he works. We meet Maluka's younger brother Solly, who searches for the truth of what happened; the farm's matron Sunette, who suffers at the hands of her violent husband; Maluka's beloved Cola, a young spiritualist, who is pregnant with his child; and many more memorable characters. As secrets and resentments come to light, relationships are put under pressure, illuminating the complex and simmering tensions that define this community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn exquisite and wide-ranging debut, \u003ci\u003eWe Belong to the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e offers an utterly original vision of post-apartheid South Africa, one that grapples with the freedom from the old apartheid realities and the yet-unrealized promised land of self-empowerment and equity the nation had long yearned for. The effects of exploitation, poverty, racism, and greed converge in a small town to tell the tale of a nation still grappling with the wounds of a violent history that is more than a recent memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68121618120940,"sku":"9781644215838","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/2987\/3644\/files\/8155MafB-tL._SL1500.avif?v=1794174228","url":"https:\/\/www.gladysbooksandwine.com\/products\/we-belong-to-the-trees","provider":"Gladys Books \u0026 Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}