num_pages: 250
description: “A major American novelist of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph Heller.”— Los Angeles Times Bobby is young and black. Barely a teenager, he is old beyond his years. The best thing in Bobby’s life is Maria, his Hispanic girlfriend. However, their lives are irrevocably shattered when a vicious Hispanic street gang attack the couple. When Bobby’s bruised and bloodied body is discovered by Moishe, an aged concentration camp survivor, an unlikely friendship begins. As Moishe slowly, painfully reveals his own tragic story, Bobby struggles angrily with his desperate need for revenge.
language: English
title: The Willow Tree
titlecomplete: The Willow Tree
genres: 20th Century, American, Modern, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 745
publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd