At the age of twenty-nine, Sizwe Magadla is among the most
handsome, well-educated, and richest of the men in his
poverty-stricken village. Dr. Hermann Reuter, a son of old South
West African stock, wants to show the world that if you provide
decent treatment, people will come and get it, no matter their
circumstances.
Sizwe and Hermann live at the epicenter of the greatest plague
of our times, the African AIDS epidemic. In South Africa alone,
nearly 6 million people in a population of 46 million are
HIV-positive. Already, Sizwe has watched several neighbors grow ill
and die, yet he himself has pushed AIDS to the margins of his life
and associates it obliquely with other people's envy, with
comeuppance, and with misfortune.
When Hermann Reuter establishes an antiretroviral treatment
program in Sizwe's district and Sizwe discovers that close family
members have the virus, the antagonism between these two figures
from very different worlds -- one afraid that people will turn
their backs on medical care, the other fearful of the advent of a
world in which respect for traditional ways has been lost and
privacy has been obliterated -- mirrors a continent-wide battle
against an epidemic that has corrupted souls as much as bodies.
A heartbreaking tale of shame and pride, sex and death, and a
continent's battle with its demons, Steinberg's searing account is
a tour-de-force of literary journalism.
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