LEADER 02344ojm 2200289z- 450 001 9910149057903321 005 20230912161814.0 010 $a0-00-819108-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000924172 035 $a(BIP)055677904 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000924172 100 $a20231107c2016uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aWe Are Not Such Things : A Murder in a South African Township and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation 210 $cHarperCollins UK 330 8 $aA 'MAKING A MURDERER' set in South Africa - a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheidIn 1993, in the final, fiery days of apartheid, a 26-year-old white American activist called Amy Biehl was murdered by a group of young black men in a township near Cape Town. Four men were tried and convicted of the murder and sentenced to eighteen years in prison. A few years later they had been freed. Two of the men were subsequently employed by Amy's parents to work at a charity set up in her memory. The men grew close to the Biehls. They called them 'Grandmother' and 'Grandfather'.Justine van der Leun, an American writer living in South Africa, set out to tell this twenty-year story, but as she delved into the case, the prevailing narrative started to unravel. Why didn't the eyewitness reports agree on who killed Amy Biehl? Were the men convicted of the crime actually responsible? And could it be that another violent crime committed on the same day, in the very same area, was connected to the murder of Amy Biehl?We Are Not Such Things is the result of Justine van der Leun's four years investigating this strange, knotted tale of injustice, hatred, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is a gripping journey through the bizarre twists and turns of this case and its aftermath - and a lucid, eye-opening account of life today in a society still fractured and haunted by apartheid. 517 $aWe Are Not Such Things 610 $aSocial science 610 $aHistory 610 $aSocial sciences 676 $a364.15230922 700 $avan der Leun$b Justine$01450463 702 $aLefkow$b Laurel$4oth 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910149057903321 996 $aWe Are Not Such Things : A Murder in a South African Township and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation$93649819 997 $aUNINA