{"title":"Janet Levine","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"livs-secrets-paperback","title":"Liv's Secrets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharpeville, South Africa, 1960. A young, white woman whose family survived the burning of villages and killings of Jews in pogroms in Lithuania in the 1880s, must decide: keep her silence-or join the fight against apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Weisz family fled Lithuania with nothing but a vow to never again be victims of discrimination and violent oppression. Three decades later, that promise has carried their descendants across oceans to the sun-scorched streets of Johannesburg-where \"freedom\" for black people is measured in passbooks, and dissent is a potential death sentence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Liv Weisz believed her family had already paid for their freedom, but when the Sharpeville massacre leaves the township streets with sixty-nine bodies shot in the back and a nation on edge, remaining silent becomes a luxury she can no longer afford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawn into the underground resistance of the anti-apartheid movement, Liv discovers she has her family's skills at survival learned in Europe decades earlier; but that becoming invisible is not just a survival tactic but also a weapon. In 1960s South Africa, her home now a safe house, her life is no safer than that for her grandmothers in the shtetl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Liv's Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e, a sweeping multi-generational family saga spanning 20th century South African history from the Lithuanian shtetls to the townships of Johannesburg is a must read for fans of among others, historical family sagas like \u003cem\u003ethe Covenant of Water\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePachinko\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHomegoing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome prices for freedom are paid in blood. Some in everything you were before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67575929929951,"sku":"9781956450507","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mmmXKs7jGb9781956450507.webp?v=1790376782"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/janet-levine.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}