Cruel Crazy Beautiful World

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Cultural Heritage, Coming of Age, Literary
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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.

 

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Two characters navigate the post-apartheid South African landscape in this haunting story of the injustice that still simmers below the country’s surface

** **

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.

 

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