{"product_id":"9781838851378","title":"How Beautiful We Were","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in the fictional African village of Kosawa, this is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and broken. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But it will come at a steep price - one which generation after generation will have to pay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JONATHAN BALL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40556666781811,"sku":"9781838851378","price":220.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/9781838851378.jpg?v=1667566949","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.shop\/products\/9781838851378","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}