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Shatters convenient narratives about the end of apartheid and the nature of justice, and takes readers on a headlong chase for deeper truths'ÂeÂ(tm) Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside 'ÂeÂ~This is not just fine journalism but astonishing storytelling. Justine van der Leun brings to the page a rare combination of muscular reporting, limitless curiosity, soulful vision, courage and tenderness'ÂeÂ(tm) Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace 'ÂeÂ~Suspenseful and engrossing. Van der Leun shows how a powerful desire for reconciliation can in fact obscure the truth, a truth we need in order to establish real equity and the justice that all people deserve'ÂeÂ(tm) Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black 'ÂeÂ~This unsparing but compassionate work will enlighten and shake its readers'ÂeÂ(tm) Norman Rush 'ÂeÂ~A tour-de-force depiction of modern South Africa. A complex, nuanced, and perhaps ultimately unknowable story that will captivate all readers'ÂeÂ(tm) Publishers Weekly.