| Author: | Troy Blacklaws | ISBN: | 9781480410039 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Media | Publication: | March 26, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Open Road Media | Language: | English |
| Author: | Troy Blacklaws |
| ISBN: | 9781480410039 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Media |
| Publication: | March 26, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Open Road Media |
| Language: | English |
Two characters navigate the post-apartheid South African landscape in this haunting story of the injustice that still simmers below the country’s surface
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In Troy Blacklaws’s ambitious novel, the lives of two African men run parallel, exposing the tensions that rumble at South Africa’s post-apartheid core. Jerusalem is a young poet and student whose stubborn father will no longer pay for his rambling studies. Half Jewish, half Muslim, Jerusalem is forced from Cape Town to a distant harbor village by his father, who believes a stint selling curios to tourists will right his wandering ways. Meanwhile, Jabulani loses his teaching job in Zimbabwe after mocking President Mugabe and must move south to start a new life. But his life across the border is tainted by the harsh truth that racism isn’t gone; it’s just taken another form. As the two men’s lives merge, their stories reveal the paradoxes of the South African experience.
Two characters navigate the post-apartheid South African landscape in this haunting story of the injustice that still simmers below the country’s surface
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In Troy Blacklaws’s ambitious novel, the lives of two African men run parallel, exposing the tensions that rumble at South Africa’s post-apartheid core. Jerusalem is a young poet and student whose stubborn father will no longer pay for his rambling studies. Half Jewish, half Muslim, Jerusalem is forced from Cape Town to a distant harbor village by his father, who believes a stint selling curios to tourists will right his wandering ways. Meanwhile, Jabulani loses his teaching job in Zimbabwe after mocking President Mugabe and must move south to start a new life. But his life across the border is tainted by the harsh truth that racism isn’t gone; it’s just taken another form. As the two men’s lives merge, their stories reveal the paradoxes of the South African experience.
