Cruel Crazy Beautiful World: A Novel

By: Troy Blacklaws

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Synopsis: 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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