{"product_id":"the-third-reel","title":"Third Reel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cstrong\u003eScott Pack: Books of the Year 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The Sunday Times Literary Awards (South Africa)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eTwenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns and Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living in derelict artists’ communes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eWhen Etienne finds the first of three reels of a German film from the 1930s, he begins searching for the missing reels, a project that turns into an obsession when his lover disappears in Berlin. It is while navigating this city divided by the Wall that Etienne gradually pieces together the history of a small group of Jewish film makers in Nazi Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eIt is a desperate quest amid complications that pull him back to the present and to South Africa. However, his search for the missing film continues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eAmbitious and cosmopolitan, the material of S. J. Naudé’s \u003cem\u003eThe Third Reel\u003c\/em\u003e is as disparate as the cities in which the book is set. Architecture, cinematography, sex, music, illness, loss and love all collide in this exquisitely wrought, deeply affecting novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32118533554259,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-third-reel","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}