'Not since My Own Country has the AIDS epidemic been described so deeply and so humanely... Steinberg is keenly attuned to the way a community encounters illness and has ended up with a big, brave, poignant look into the heart of his country' - Time Out
Jonny Steinberg was born and bred in South Africa. He is the author of critically acclaimed Three Letter Plague, published by Vintage, Little Liberia, Midlands and The Number, which both won South Africa's premier non-fiction literary award and the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize. Steinberg was educated at Wits University in Johannesburg, and at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked as a journalist on a national daily, written scripts for television drama, and has been a consultant to the South African government on criminal justice policy.
This forceful narrative, with sharp insights and value...has to do
with the immense power of stigma, the ways in which we mirror the
real or imagined condemnation of others, and of how easily stigma
becomes entwined with sexuality
*New York Times*
Writing with tenderness and authority, Steinberg skilfully
manoeuvres past the prejudice that so often muddles analysis of
HIV/AIDS to capture the essence of the pandemic and how it
threatens not just lives in South Africa but the future of an
entire nation
*Tim Butcher*
With his distinctive clarity of vision, Jonny Steinberg mines down
into another of contemporary South Africa's fault lines and manages
to pull off a remarkable literary feat - how to make AIDS engaging
to a largely fatigued world
*Peter Godwin*
A compelling account... jaw-dropping and unforgettable
*Independent*
Sex and death are hard to talk about, but Jonny Steinberg has a
gift for coaxing people to open up. If you want to know why AIDS is
devastating southern Africa, you have to read this book. It is a
brilliant exploration of the secret, intimate decisions that turn
an epidemic into a catastrophe
*Robert Guest*
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