{"lc_classifications": ["PZ7.N1384 No 1997"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Set in South Africa in the 1990s, a time when an increasing number of young black South Africans are dealing with the violence, the legacy of disrupted schooling and the continued struggle for survival. The story focuses on one boy's struggle for survival as he leaves the violence of his home and joins a gang of children living on the streets."}, "title": "No turning back", "covers": [50367], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Tiptoeing toward his mother's bed, Sipho touched the table to steady himself."}, "subject_places": ["South Africa"], "first_publish_date": "1995", "key": "/works/OL3285804W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL536960A"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Tiptoeing toward his mother's bed, Sipho touched the table to steady himself."}, "page": "First sentence"}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Street children", "Blacks", "Children, Black", "Juvenile fiction", "Black Children", "Fiction", "Runaway children", "Children's fiction", "South africa, fiction", "Orphans, fiction", "Blacks, fiction", "Homeless children", "Family problems", "Runaways"], "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:14:50.267771"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-02-02T16:56:56.875251"}}