The dubious salvation of Jack V.
By: Jacques Strauss
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780374144128
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Coming of age in a Johannesburg divided by apartheid, Jack Viljee clings to his belief in a rational world and endures household violence that mirrors the politics of his country, a precarious environment that is disrupted by the arrival of his maid's enraged son.