The Mandela Plot
The second novel from GG finalist and international award winner Kenneth Bonert, who brought Jewish Johannesburg to explosive life in his debut, The Lion Seeker.
As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of political violence, the apartheid regime in its death throes. is a misfit At an elite private boys' school in Johannesburg, a young Martin Helgeris a mifit, the son of a rough-handed scrap dealer and contemptible little brother of an enigamtic local legend.
When a beautiful and manipulative young American arrives at the family home, Martin soon finds himself wrenched out of his privilieged bubble and thrust into the raw heart of the racial struggle. At the same time, secrets from the
past begin…
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May 21, 2019KENNETH BONERT's first novel, The Lion Seeker, won the Canadian Jewish Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. Bonert was also a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Amazon First Novel Award and the Sami Rohr Prize. He was born in South Africa and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.