The Lion Seeker: A Novel

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Synopsis
National Jewish Book Award Winner: A family saga set in WWII-era South Africa offering both &“page-turning thrills [and] a painful meditation on destiny&” (NPR, All Things Considered). Called &“a latter-day Exodus&” by Kirkus Reviews, The Lion Seeker is an epic historical novel centered on the life of Isaac Helger. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, he runs around the streets of Johannesburg as a young hooligan and dreams of getting rich. But his parents are still haunted by the memories of the anti-Semitic pogroms they escaped, even as Isaac secretly pursues a relationship with a gentile girl. As the Nazi threat rises, Isaac is caught between his mother&’s urgent ambition to bring her sisters to safety out of the old world, and his own desire to enjoy 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 any cost.
Copyright:
2013

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
576 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780547898414
Related ISBNs:
9780544334519
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Military, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
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