The Lion Seeker

ISBN-13: 9780544334519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 576 str.

Kenneth Bonert

Opis

"A taut, visceral account of a young Jewish boy's African life . . . offering at times page-turning thrills and at others a painful meditation on destiny and volition." -- NPR, All Things Considered

A powerful family saga, The Lion Seeker is a thrilling ride through the life of Isaac Helger, from redheaded hooligan on the streets of Johannesburg to striving young man on the make. Growing up in the shadow of World War II, Isaac is caught between his mother's urgent ambition to bring her sisters to safety out of the old world and his own desire for the freedoms of the new. But soon his mother's carefully guarded secret takes them to the diamond mines, where mysteries are unveiled in the desert rocks and Isaac begins to learn the bittersweet reality of success bought at truly any cost.

" A] master storyteller . . . Bonert's zest for description, his attention to social nuances, and his eagerness to tell a large story in a large way . . . creates] a big, richly detailed novel." -- Tablet Magazine

"Raw and ambitious." -- Moment

"Astonishingly mature, admirably incautious . . . It's visually and thematically sweeping, rich with diverse personalities, packed with tender waves and roiling crests of love, loss, hope, hatred." -- National Post (Canada)

"Stunning." -- Jewish Daily Forward

"Powerful and thoroughly engrossing . . . To read it is to be reminded how great a great novel can be." -- David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World

Recenzje

Winner, Edward Lewis Wallant Award
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award
An Indie Next pick for November 2013
A Barnes & Noble Holiday 2013 Discover Great New Writers Selection
Amazon's New and Notable
"Bookseller Jury Pick" of the ABA Debut Dozen for Fall 2013
A Zoomer Book of the Week (Feb. 2013)
Featured in the Quill & Quire Spring 2013 Preview
"A captivating story, offering at times page-turning thrills and at others a painful meditation on destiny and volition. All too often debut novels stay too close to a writer's own life; it is a great gift to be able to mine family history and flex the imagination to create something that exudes such urgency and brilliance as this memorable book."-Ellah Allfrey, All Things Considered , NPR
"[A] bold, ambitious debut novel."-Tom Lavoie, Shelf Awareness
"This book is worth getting excited about. . . It's most impressive. The voice is like a close third person and you get inside the cadence of the characters in a special way."- Jenn Northington, Book Riot
"Suspenseful, entertaining, and thought provoking epic debut novel."- New York Journal of Books "Raw and ambitious." - Moment Magazine

O autorze

Kenneth Bonert, geboren 1972 in Johannesburg, wo er auch aufwuchs, bis er 17-jährig mit den Eltern nach Kanada emigrierte. Er studierte Journalistik an der Ryerson University in Toronto, wo er heute als Reporter und Schriftsteller lebt.