Cruel Crazy Beautiful World: A Novel

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 vi...