Kenneth Bonert
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of political violence with the apartheid regime in its death throes. Young Martin Helger is the struggling odd duck at an elite private boys school in Johannesburg, with his father a rough-handed scrap dealer and his brother a mysterious legend. When a beautiful and manipulative American arrives at the family home, Martin soon finds himself wrenched out of his isolated bubble and thrust into...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
564 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Are you a stupid or a clever? Such is the refrain in Isaac Helger's mind as he makes his way from redheaded hooligan to searching adolescent to striving young man on the make. His mother's question haunts every choice. Are you a stupid or a clever? Will you find a way to lift your family out of Johannesburg's poor inner city, to buy a house in the suburbs, to bring your aunts and cousins from Lithuania? Isaac's mother is a strong woman and a scarred...
