{"product_id":"third-reel","title":"Third Reel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe much-anticipated first novel from the author of the outstanding short story collection \u003cem\u003eThe Alphabet of Birds\u003c\/em\u003e. In 1986 a young South African film student in London finds the first of three reels of a film made by a group of Jewish filmmakers in Germany in the 1930s. He sets off for Berlin to find the two missing reels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15 April 2018\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Salt Publishing\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScott Pack: Books of the Year  2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The Sunday Times Literary Awards (South Africa)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\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\u003cp\u003e                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 376g                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 199 x 137 x 29 (mm)                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781784631505                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"S. J. Naude","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44102432096506,"sku":"9781784631505","price":7.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/48574f966d398acaaf083b2fe72313cb.jpg?v=1630897074","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/third-reel","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}