Three-Letter Plague By Jonny Steinberg

The village in South Africa’s Eastern Cape where Jonny Steinberg decided to study Aids has no television or internet access. Indeed, it has no electricity. The people believe in divine healers and fear the consequences of treating their ancestors badly. Yet as I read Three-Letter Plague, Mr Steinberg’s revelatory and beautifully crafted book, I was struck by the universal nature of his story.