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The Message

ISBN 
9780241724194
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R380.00
Published 
November 2024
About the book: 
In 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.
 
The 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.
 
Written 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.
About the Author
Ta-Nehisi Coates  is the author of  The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer,  and  Between the World and Me,  which won the  National Book Award  in 2015. He is the recipient of a  National Magazine Award  and a  MacArthur Fellowship.  He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.

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