Out of Shadows

ISBN-13: 9781849390484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str.

Jason Wallace

Opis

A compelling, thought-provoking novel about race, bullying and the need to belong, set in Africa.
"If I stood you in front of a man, pressed a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?
No, Sir, No way
What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler?
Would you do it then?
"
Set in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, just after the war for independence, a young English boy, Jacklin, is torn between his black friends at school and his sympathy for the colonial whites after witnessing the compulsory land seizures by Robert Mugabe's government.
But with an imminent visit by Robert Mugabe to the school, Jacklin realizes that Ivan, his white supremacist schoolmate, plans to assassinate the black leader. The novel leaves us with the moral dilemma in hindsight, should Jacklin have killed Ivan or let Ivan kill Robert Mugabe?"

Recenzje

"A stunning debut novel without a false note. Accomplished and powerful, it changes the way you think." Costa Book Award

O autorze

Jason Wallace was born in Cheltenham in 1969 but moved to London after his parents split up. Aged 12 his life was turned upside down when his mother remarried and the family emigrated to Zimbabwe. It was this experience in a tough boarding school during the aftermath of the war for independence that forms the foundation of his incredible novel. And he did actually meet Robert Mugabe when he visited his school. Jason is currently a web designer, living in South West London.