{"product_id":"9780241724194","title":"The Message","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his keenly anticipated new book,  The Message,  he explores the urgent question of how our stories - our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking - both expose and distort our realities. Travelling to three resonant sites of conflict, he illuminates how the stories we tell - as well as the ones we don't - work to shape us.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe first of the book's three main parts finds Coates on his inaugural trip to Africa - a journey to Dakar, where he finds himself in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and the ghost-haunted country of his imagination. He then takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on the banning of his own work and the deep roots of a false and fiercely protected American mythology - visibly on display in this capital of the confederacy, with statues of segregationists still looming over its public squares. Finally in Palestine, Coates sees with devastating clarity the tragedy that grows in the clash between the stories we tell and reality on the ground.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWritten at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country's most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world - and our own souls - and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Ta-Nehisi+Coates\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eTa-Nehisi Coates\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382595076259,"sku":"9780241724194","price":380.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241724194_83c6e87e-be5b-4119-b3cc-88a84c3a1e07.jpg?v=1776468421","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780241724194","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}